elections

On Sunday, Bulgarians will have the unique opportunity to choose who will not reform the healthcare, pension and education systems; who will redistribute part of their wealth; who will support one or another monopoly and who will worsen the state of the economy. In other words – tomorrow Bulgarians will vote to preserve the status quo. …

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?

Tomorrow, Bulgarians will have the unique opportunity to choose who will not reform the health, pension and education systems; who will redistribute part of their wealth; who will support one or another monopoly and who will worsen the state of the economy. In other words - tomorrow, Bulgarians will vote to preserve the status quo.

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…

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...

We continue with the topic of election campaigns and programs, focusing on the parties on the right. And the UDF opened its election campaign with 10 measures (of which I will look at 8, because the other 2 are not available) that will "modernize" Bulgaria (or at least they won't take it back).