Veselin Stoynev's comment:
Whoever waves the banner against corruption most fervently is usually thought of as an apostle, believing that he can heroically overthrow the empire of the conquered state. And he himself sets the standard for righteousness, even if he does not have a strong army behind him, but a motley retinue of mercenaries - some with loftier, some with more everyday ambitions, padded here with naivety, here with impudence.
There are no saints in democratic politics
However, there are no saints in democratic politics, because a politician cannot be an individualist who leads followers alone. It is no coincidence that there has never been a party of saints. Moreover, a saint is a sinner like everyone else and only becomes a saint posthumously. And every political sinner relies on political indulgences during his lifetime, and a few later on canonization from history. Only the people he represents are constitutionally canonized - as a sovereign who alone and always is righteous to shout "hosanna" and "crucify him".
Therefore, the leaders of "Continue the Change" should neither consider themselves anti-corruption apostles, nor should others burden them with such holy expectations. Otherwise, the anti-corruption cause will never wait for the Second Coming of the kingdom of law.
Especially when the devil is everywhere - both within those who believe themselves to be apostles and in the outright false apostles next to them. And when he surrounded the entire apostolic procession, tempting everyone together and individually and scourging them with all the devilish tricks and tools of his mighty devilish power.
The Cyclic Anti-Corruption March
The thirty-year march of the democratic community through the corruption desert passed through numerous formations - SDS, DSB, "Blue Coalition", "Reformist Bloc", "Yes, Bulgaria", "We Continue the Change". After heavy defeats, some of them died, others survived reduced, others were sucked out by their own kind before blossoming and then allied with them, and in the end, those who quickly flourished withered away, broken. They tried everything – both wars against and alliances with the devil's parties. The democratic community, now enthusiastic, now discouraged, followed them and abandoned them. And with every crisis of its political representation, the question arose repeatedly - are the parties bad or is it that much it can radiate from itself? Should its political representatives split or unite? Or should another new formation be sought, and the already elderly ones stoop to it?
During these repeated cycles, untested, untrained and easily penetrated people invade the new formations, while power is concentrated in the party elite. And the established parties are closing down their personnel in order to remain pure and unbroken, and for fear that one of their people will step on the onion, they participate minimally in power, when such an opportunity arises at all.
Maturation of the democratic community and its parties?
This cyclical historical experience should finally lead the community and its political representatives to some kind of maturation, which would reject another split or the search for a new political outfit. This maturation would eventually lead to the understanding that, regardless of the earthquake, it is good for the PP-DB to continue as a coalition, and the PP must seriously reform itself if it wants to survive the crisis and not leave it en masse. And that in the end, the "apostolic" Democratic politics requires a smaller but tight army that can permanently defend the values and interests of its voters, but which at the same time should be set goals that it can achieve, and not for its leaders to mainly wave the flag and blow the trumpet.
However, if the political representation of the democratic community weakens greatly, it may forcibly become a democratic facade of a corrupt status quo...
A presidential alliance with GERB?
The leader of GERB made an attempt to limit this democratic representation to the sanitary minimum even before the apostolic resignation in the PP. Boyko Borisov spoke about a presidential alliance of GERB with the PP-DB even at the initial stage of nominating a candidate for head of state. Which again would be under the same formula that was also conceived for the joint government with the PP-DB because of the war in Ukraine and President Radev.
Before a possible run-off, this is essentially a stop offer. Because it means handing over the anti-corruption flag to Radev or quietly putting it in the museum.