Politics

The chants of the protesters in the streets, "Red trash", are hardly pleasing to some of the BSP members. It is unlikely that even some of them associate themselves with those members of the party for whom the slogan itself was created in the early 90s. It was the offended BSP sympathizers who rose up in rebellion against ...

For the liberal-minded person, the protests against the Oresharski cabinet may be a reason for (rather) cautious optimism. The good thing about extremely brazen political actions is that they manage to illustrate the essence of the state for absolutely everyone with one grotesque example much better than countless articles and books on the subject.

The leader of the far-right British Independence Party, Nigel Farage, became a Roma king for a day. The realization of his worst dreams actually turned out to be a seemingly quite exotic and emotional experience for him in the capital's Fakulteta district, in the company of Tsvetelin Kanchev and a cocktail of songs by the sweet-singing gypsy pavarotti - Jago.

In the days following the parliamentary elections, the public debate focused on two main topics – the distribution of parliamentary seats and the possible coalition of the four parliamentary parties, and the scandal surrounding the printed ballots. These two topics successfully displaced one of the interesting leitmotifs of the election campaigns – the financing of political parties …

Amidst the rising cacophony, the question remained somehow unasked: “So what?” How exactly does yesterday's incident differ from the trivial practice we witness in all elections, with the exception perhaps of our amateurism?

Less than a week before the elections, the fact that for the first time in the history of Bulgarian parliamentarism the Turkish minority will be represented by two different political formations seems to be underestimated. The topic of ethnic parties and analyzing politics through this prism are taboo due to the legal discrepancies between theory and practice…

There are three reasons why this month, it is a priority to follow politics in the media, not elsewhere - certainly the main focus of politicians is to be alert to what they are saying, how they are saying it, and whether there is a microphone or camera around them at the relevant moment.

Observing the wiretapping scandal, one is reminded of the words of Niccolo Machiavelli that "those deeds that are undesirable to the subjects, rulers should assign to others to do, and those that are desirable they should perform themselves." The Renaissance philosopher's thought can be directly attributed to the statements of Tsvetan Tsvetanov...

Naturally, for a campaign that came at an awkward moment and caught the players unprepared, the parties split into two camps - some are afraid to promise anything (we've heard the blabbermouth: "We don't promise, we offer"), while the others promise everything and a lot of it.

The years of transition can be characterized with many epithets, including “controversial,” “uncertain,” “disappointing,” and perhaps someone with a more optimistic view of the period would use words like “successful,” “dynamic,” or “inevitable.” However, one thing stood out as an irrefutable trend during these years, and that is precisely the long lists of …