The BSP is completely on its knees and whatever Delyan Peevski and Boyko Borisov say, that's what they do!
With this statement, Georgi Kadiev, former BSP MP, leader of the "Normal State" party, began his interview with the Bulgarian National Radio, adding:
"What the BSP leadership is doing now is a betrayal of the entire politics of the last 15 years. There was one main sentence in the politics of the entire left space and it was "Never with GERB!". This was forgotten in 10 minutes and now they are explaining to us how this is the voice of reason, i.e. everything has been unreasonable so far. I do not imagine the left in Bulgaria as an affiliated organization of "New Beginning" and GERB".
In his words, the BSP leadership is putting itself in the role of "Peevski's hostages" and the worrying thing is that the socialist party has no internal immune forces to deal with this:
"Peevski has a not particularly complex manner of behavior - either he buys you or he blackmails you through the bludgeons - the prosecutor's office, the Communist Party of Bulgaria, etc. And anyone who has given in even for a little while is now his slave forever. Unfortunately, I think that at the moment the left is his slave, hopefully not forever".
According to Kadiev, the next left-wing candidate for president will be the one Peevski pointed out:
"They have put themselves in such a position that they no longer have a free choice.... For me, the presidential campaign has already begun".
Kadiev believes thatRossen Zhelyazkov's government can only be overthrown by Borisov and Peevski, and "the opposition is not strong enough" to do this:
"But Peevski is more basic, because Borisov has a more or less standard electorate and an expected result of 500-600 thousand votes. While Peevski clearly has an upward trend and he may decide that he wants to be in the next parliament not with his current thirty-odd deputies, but with over 40-odd deputies.
He predicted that the cabinet would not fall before the presidential elections in the fall of 2026, but he also admitted a hypothesis in the opposite direction:
"If they (Peevski and Borisov) want to stop President Rumen Radev from entering politics, they would hold the elections sooner, because he is unlikely to leave the presidential post this fall, and if they leave the elections for next fall, then it is quite possible that they will have him as an opponent".