The concentration of seven consecutive elections and the record failure in the vote for president require a short correspondence with structuralist analysis. To refresh the memory. At the heart of the political crisis lies the combination of two faults (cleavage - for political scientists from the NBU and the Faculty of Philosophy), represented through the party groups in the National Assembly. The first is ...
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The latest episode of the "judicial reform" saga ended, as the employers of the smart-beautiful activists would say, with a whimper, instead of an explosion. But why? Why did they simply fulfill a few formal KPIs - Geshev fell, they smeared the constitution - but somehow it doesn't seem like the "bad guys" have lost their influence, quite the opposite. Complete dominance in the quota...
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Vladislav Goranov has decided to become a lobbyist. This is the gist of the news that the former finance minister has decided to establish a consulting firm after his resignation from the GERB government. All doubts about a potential conflict of interest aside, hardly anyone can be seriously surprised by such news. Still …
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Author: Dimitar Pehlivanov Three main directions can be outlined that caused the current social crisis, which is about to become political. Despite the fact that in the general perception things seem to merge under concepts such as "governance" and "mafia", the events of recent weeks and months allow us to outline ...
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Author: Yoan Zapryanov The bottom, as every Levski supporter knows, is an abstract concept. I used to think, for example, that our elimination from Bate Borisov was the bottom. Or the one from Spartak Tarnava in one half. Or when we lost the title in the last match with an own goal, and a week before that we had lost and …
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Over the past week, a stormy scandal has erupted in the media over the amendments to the Law on Privatization and Post-Privatization Control proposed by the Ataka party and supported by GERB and VMRO. Accusations have poured in from the media that the proposed amendments are completely "lobbying" aimed at protecting the financial interests of the Domuschievi brothers and Delyan Peevski in particular. The most …
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