Not only Borisov's plan is barren. Gone are the days of gangster oligarchies. Perhaps the time of dark tyrannies is coming. And maybe the time of a new democracy is coming. This entirely depends on the efforts of the citizenry.
Comment from Prof. Evgeny Dainov:
Great wonder began about the tremors in the DPS - and less wonder about the ridiculous quarrels in "Velichie". In fact, there is nothing surprising.
Why the oligarchs grabbed each other
Just a few days ago I had the opportunity to remind Aristotle of an axiomatic position. If there is no external on an oligarchic power, i.e. from the people, pressure, this is not necessarily good for the oligarchy. On the contrary: deprived of the need to unite against the external enemy, the oligarchs, as a rule, turn on each other. This is even more true of today's oligarchs, who - unlike the Greeks of Aristotle's time - can only exist as long as they appropriate public funds. They are forced to appropriate more and more, since they themselves do not know how to multiply, but only to waste their wealth. Sooner or later the moment comes when the inflow of resources proves to be insufficient. That's when the oligarchs grab each other's throats in order to divert more funds from their comrade.
Currently, society in Bulgaria is in one of its lethargic periods. There is no street pressure on the oligarchs. And they grabbed each other by the throat.
This process in "Greatness" takes place in a caricature. There they grabbed each other's throats even before they started misappropriating public funds - they fought at the starting line. Days later, the same processes settled in the circles of the DPS. There, the starved Delyan Peevski apparently decided to eliminate all alternative power centers in the party so that he could single-handedly appropriate at least something, however limited, through the fund-pumping machine created by Ahmed Dogan.
Obviously the "nobles" in GERB, Boyko Borisov has promised some kind of renewed access to public resources, since there - for now - no such clashes are observed. It is no coincidence that all these people were proposed as ministers in the draft cabinet of GERB. This was not only a provocation to society, which overthrew exactly these "nobles" four years ago. This was also a promise to themselves: "Whatever happened, everything will be as it was.
If these project ministers have taken this promise, it would mean that they are either completely delusional, or they are so hungry that they can no longer think straight. Because: even with the formation of such a cabinet, supported by the DPS and some floating (and hungry) MPs - exactly the DPS and the floating ones would not allow the ministers from GERB to bring back the "as it was" principle.
Besides, Borisov was obviously not honest with his people from the beginning. He did not want me to take responsibility for a government, since for him personally the plan "as it was" is fully applicable in a regime of permanent elections and maximum fragmentation of the parliament. That being the case, there is no prospect of anyone ever replacing the regulators working for their interests, nor of ever forming a majority to restart judicial reform after it is (as expected) halted by an increasingly lackey-minded Constitutional Court.< /p>
Gone are the days of gangster oligarchies. What's coming now?
But not only Borisov's plan is barren. "How have you been" it can't happen to anyone. Gone are the days of gangster oligarchies. Perhaps the time of frankly Putin-like, obscurantist and fanatical tyrannies is coming. And perhaps the time is coming to shake off the society from oligarchies and tyrants and replace them with a renewed democracy. This entirely depends on the efforts of the citizenry.
As always, the salvation of the drowning lies in the hands of the drowning themselves.
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