The nomination of Antoaneta Stefanova gave everyone the opportunity to practice their chess clichés – from “zungzwang” to “Sicilian defense”. However, that is not what matters. The more important part of the statement by Slavi Trifonov, chairman of “There is such a people”, was that the second term would be returned. In this way, it practically ended …

|Click for full report| Discussions around the National Recovery and Resilience Plan have been a major part of the heated political debate over the past week. They will continue to be important in the coming months. Unfortunately, they focus on the issue of the date of submission of the documentation to the European Commission, without …

The April 1876 uprising is a landmark event in Bulgarian history. The motives for it lie in the dissatisfaction of some of the Bulgarians of the time with the Ottoman state power. The history of the uprising is often misused, but there are two neglected and important aspects in it. First of all: it covered settlements with …

On Sunday, all of Bulgaria woke up to another peculiar address by the outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. Thank God, this time it was not from the notorious jeep, but took place in the form of a formal press conference. At it, Borisov responded to the demands of the new parliament to appear and present the National …

Guest author: Kristiyan Hristov This article is a continuation of "Left, Right Undetermined: The Compass Remains Broken" from "2020: Inside and Beyond" Eleven days after Election Day and on the day of the first session of the 45th National Assembly (fortunately in the right building), the left-right divide still does not exist. Again, the divide …

Boyko Borissov is living out his last days as Prime Minister of Bulgaria. It cannot be said that he is doing it particularly calmly: just two hours after the end of election day, he basically scolded the other parties and ordered them to first form an expert cabinet with him, and then ...

The Saturday immediately before election Sunday is usually marked as a “day of reflection.” But the Monday immediately after it is perhaps an even more important day of reflection. It is the day when, reviewing the election results, we can outline the ideological color of the new parliament in view of the political formations that have succeeded …

Authors: Georgi Stoyanov, Georgi Karavasilev Many people question the meaning of exercising their vote in the current system of representative democracy. Nevertheless, when it comes to not only who gets to spend the money you stole, but also who is going to steal even more to fulfill some of the …

Alas, the idea of this article was for a much more full-fledged material, examining the last 4 years of government through the prism of indiscriminate government spending. The "elite" who spent the taxpayer's money, although with a long experience in politics, received only their first full governing mandate, worthy of delving into how much it cost us ...

As it became clear in the first part of the series, the buying and selling of votes can occur in at least two ways. The first is through the direct giving of cash (the infamous 50 leva per vote) to mark a particular ballot, the second is through the promise of policies that financially benefit the respective …