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Peevski's takeover of DPS showed how proportional voting turns parties into juntas

Bulgaria will not get better until it abandons this fake voting system and introduces majority voting

Aug 30, 2024 05:34 124

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The takeover of DPS from Peevski clearly demonstrates how the proportional electoral system turns parties into juntas, into private companies for plundering the common property. Alienated from their electorate, they can easily be subjugated by an external force, including from abroad, because this is exactly the case - Peevski is doing everything possible to release those blocked under the "Magnitsky" law. assets.

Now he is the first Atlantic, but if his money was blocked by Putin, he would be the first Putinist. If the electoral system was majoritarian, he would certainly not be able to become an MP from an ethnic area, therefore he would not be a DPS MP, let alone party chairman and head of the parliamentary group.

I suppose that Dogan could regularly win in one of the total 240 constituencies, but could he get the remaining 30-40-50 DPS depots behind him? Absurd. There would be no lists and Dogan-appointed leaders of guaranteed-mandate lists, each would run for his mandate in his single-mandate district and ethnic Turks would elect the person who best represents their district community - somewhere around 20- 30 thousand voters.

If the DPS offered an inadequate candidate, the Turkish voter would vote for a more acceptable candidate from another party or an independent. Such a party could not be taken over "from above", as each DPS MP would be personally responsible to his local electorate for his every political action. And now we have a party whose electorate is totally for Dogan and his people, while its narrow majority is behind Peevski, whom the Turkish electorate clearly does not approve of.

Complete discrepancy. Bulgaria will not get better until it abandons this fake voting system and introduces the majority vote.