"The material that appears in elections or from which we can choose as footage is not great at all," said Boyko Borisov at a meeting with Bulgarians in Chicago in 2009. Although the media then attributed to him the words "the material is bad," which he never actually said, what he said then...
More »The economic promises of the parties – harmful even before they fail
Ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, we are witnessing one of the strangest election campaigns in recent years. This is a campaign in which political parties are falling into heavy populism, promising us a flood of absurdities - economic growth of 6-7% per year, doubling pensions, huge increases in the average and minimum wage...
More »Media Fattening Month
In just a few days, the official election campaign will begin. Smiling and presentable party members will pour out promises of a bright future, solutions to every problem, a new child for every grandmother and… media vouchers. We decided to write a few lines about them, provoked by an incident on Facebook, which we became unwitting witnesses to. Yesterday (22.02) in …
More »Electoral (and other) challenges facing the DEOS party
For almost a year, despite my avowed hatred of the phenomenon of a “political party” in its modern Bulgarian form, I have been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Movement for European Unification and Solidarity (DEOS) party. I accepted the invitation as a representative of the Bulgarian Libertarian Society, not only because I was invited by our members and I wish to …
More »Two possible paths for Hristo Ivanov's new party
The creation of the "Yes, Bulgaria" formation was announced two days ago at an event in the capital, in front of the eyes and ears of a large part of the protest activists, scattered across various organizations from parties (DEOS and the Greens) to streamlined coalitions (Protest Network). The application was to organize a party around the resigned minister in the second cabinet ...
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