It’s super refreshing to have a new PM after 12 years of Boyko Borisov. And the fact that he is young, progressive and highly educated, can only make me happy. God speed and all the best.
I am cautiously optimistic. I hope that he is different and he didn’t enter Bulgarian politics just to benefit himself.
I’m really holding off being optimistic about the guy, but at least he can muster a smile, which is a welcome change. Boyko used to talk and behave like he just got back from work and someone had drank his last beer.
What do you Bulgarians think of every party forming the coalition, do you have discontent to at least one of them?
°insert canada joke here°
He appears to be a nice guy, but this coalition won’t last long and him even becoming PM is absurd. One year ago nobody knew him and yet because populism is rampant in Bulgaria he and his cronies somehow became ministers.
I wish the bulgarians the best. Hopefully the country will now see its golden age. Its peoples deserves it.
Good luck to Savior number … 12?
What does this mean for N Macedonia’s EU integration?
Congrats and keeping fingers crossed for you guys! I admit I don’t follow Bulgarian politics very closely, but from what I’ve heard from co-workers and read – Borisov was a piece of trash.
Good job, Bulgarian bros! I’m part of Volt, so I’ve been following your elections closely. Looks really promising for your country, I hope you guys get a good government this time!
Dude ist looking like He hast the power to really fuck his country up
He looks like the policeman I had to bribe last year in Bulgaria.
**The good:**
* He IS new, i.e. only in politics from 8 months, a lot of his party is new, while new isn’t always better we’ve reached a point where we do need “new” for better or worse.
* A lot of his members of parliament are also fresh.
* They held coalition talks openly, streamed live and signed a public coalition agreement. First time it’s happened in Bulgaria.
* There’s finally a few young faces and some variety to his government. Some of the ministers are reputable people like the sports minister or the culture minister.
* They promised absofuckinglutely everything (basically said they’ll transform the country in 4 years), which means they’ll either deliver or leave very quickly, which is a good premise for leadership.
* Same thing with corruption, they promise zero corruption so anything that happens will be very obvious, setting themselves up for either zero corruption or leaving quickly if there is any.
* He’s part of a duo more or less and his co-minister, who is now minister of finance is an extremely intelligent man.
* Their ideas are creative and brave, they may not realize them, but we’ve had 12 years of stability and as a nation we’re creative and brave people, I or other bulgarians may think some of their stuff (flying cars, zero corruption, full electronic government) is bullshit but I’m very happy we’re at least attempting bullshit rather than not doing anything.
* He’s a much more politically correct face of government than our old prime minister Borissov, who as head of the nation did not speak english and had the manners of a peasant. Not saying it was a bad thing for a head of government to have that, simply unsuited to diplomacy. Kiril Petkov is educated abroad, speaks several languages and has a more refined manner.
* It was time for GERB, the previous party, to vacate power after 12 years, as they had grown massively complacement and arrogant, as well as completely lost in their reality (as always happens with a party that spends so long in power). I’m speaking as someone who was not entirely unhappy with the state Bulgaria is in after their 12 years, I fully accept they had to leave power. This was the only way.
**The bad**
* When he stepped into his post as minister of the economy 8 months ago Kiril Petkov signed a sworn declaration he was NOT a citizen of any other nation. This turned out to be false, as at the time of putting his signature to the sworn declaration he was also a canadian citizen. This is a very bad precedent, made much worse by the fact he lied for months and then tried to spin it that he didn’t “feel” like a canadian citizen.
* A large amount of his party are people who work in or own NGOs funded by one embassy.
* Their entire name is “we continue the change” and their motto is that they are “new” and fresh and against the status quo, yet the coalition of government is literally with the communist party that ruled Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989, was renamed the socialists and then ruled from 1991 to 1997 and 2004-2009, the oldest party in the country and the same party that was the cause of the massive 2012 protests that most of the “fresh faces” were in. Also the same party that proposed the famous oligarch Peevski as head of the national security service.
* There are credible rumors that the reason they’re in government is to push the 3 things the former government resisted, the istanbul convnention, the veto against Northern Macedonia and mandatory vaccination. They have acted on these already. I am not for or against these, or saying whether you should be, simply stating that those 3 things are mostly agreed upon by citizens, which means it’d be a government doing it for another reason and a government doing things AGAINST its citizens is something I’d personally classify as bad in a democracy.
* Despite winning the elections we had record low turnout and they won with effectively 9% of all available votes in the nation. I believe this is the government with the lowest % of votes in the entire EU and possibly among the lowest in the world.
* Just as it was a positive, a lot of people are expecting them to deliver on every promise and turn the country around – which is a very bad precedent. To explain I should state in 2001 the former King of Bulgaria came back and became prime minister, he promised he would fix the country in 800 days. He did not. However, he did a LOT of good, including basically getting us into the EU, all of which was negated because expectations were too high.
* Partly because they were formed in like a month a lot of the members of his party are a little too fresh with nearly no biography to speak of
That’s more or less what I can paint as a neutral picture. Hope I kept the balance.
Congratulations. He has to the at the very least be a marginal improvement over his predecessor
Let’s see whether Bulgaria will stil block Northern Macedonia from entering EU. Then we will see whether this is good or bad news.
The wealthy have been quite good at propaganda and financial support of whomever will best serve their interest. I don’t mean all of them. Just enough that the world in general feels unsafe and not moving in a fashion where money is invested in what is desperately needed (Climate change, ending poverty, etc.). My point is dividing people with fear and hate has turned into a very successful mechanism for keeping those with power in power. I would like to hear anything that is hopeful right now. Just any indication that the wealth inequality is abating.
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So, is this good or bad news?
It’s super refreshing to have a new PM after 12 years of Boyko Borisov. And the fact that he is young, progressive and highly educated, can only make me happy. God speed and all the best.
I am cautiously optimistic. I hope that he is different and he didn’t enter Bulgarian politics just to benefit himself.
I’m really holding off being optimistic about the guy, but at least he can muster a smile, which is a welcome change. Boyko used to talk and behave like he just got back from work and someone had drank his last beer.
What do you Bulgarians think of every party forming the coalition, do you have discontent to at least one of them?
°insert canada joke here°
He appears to be a nice guy, but this coalition won’t last long and him even becoming PM is absurd. One year ago nobody knew him and yet because populism is rampant in Bulgaria he and his cronies somehow became ministers.
I wish the bulgarians the best. Hopefully the country will now see its golden age. Its peoples deserves it.
Good luck to Savior number … 12?
What does this mean for N Macedonia’s EU integration?
Congrats and keeping fingers crossed for you guys! I admit I don’t follow Bulgarian politics very closely, but from what I’ve heard from co-workers and read – Borisov was a piece of trash.
Good job, Bulgarian bros! I’m part of Volt, so I’ve been following your elections closely. Looks really promising for your country, I hope you guys get a good government this time!
Dude ist looking like He hast the power to really fuck his country up
He looks like the policeman I had to bribe last year in Bulgaria.
**The good:**
* He IS new, i.e. only in politics from 8 months, a lot of his party is new, while new isn’t always better we’ve reached a point where we do need “new” for better or worse.
* A lot of his members of parliament are also fresh.
* They held coalition talks openly, streamed live and signed a public coalition agreement. First time it’s happened in Bulgaria.
* There’s finally a few young faces and some variety to his government. Some of the ministers are reputable people like the sports minister or the culture minister.
* They promised absofuckinglutely everything (basically said they’ll transform the country in 4 years), which means they’ll either deliver or leave very quickly, which is a good premise for leadership.
* Same thing with corruption, they promise zero corruption so anything that happens will be very obvious, setting themselves up for either zero corruption or leaving quickly if there is any.
* He’s part of a duo more or less and his co-minister, who is now minister of finance is an extremely intelligent man.
* Their ideas are creative and brave, they may not realize them, but we’ve had 12 years of stability and as a nation we’re creative and brave people, I or other bulgarians may think some of their stuff (flying cars, zero corruption, full electronic government) is bullshit but I’m very happy we’re at least attempting bullshit rather than not doing anything.
* He’s a much more politically correct face of government than our old prime minister Borissov, who as head of the nation did not speak english and had the manners of a peasant. Not saying it was a bad thing for a head of government to have that, simply unsuited to diplomacy. Kiril Petkov is educated abroad, speaks several languages and has a more refined manner.
* It was time for GERB, the previous party, to vacate power after 12 years, as they had grown massively complacement and arrogant, as well as completely lost in their reality (as always happens with a party that spends so long in power). I’m speaking as someone who was not entirely unhappy with the state Bulgaria is in after their 12 years, I fully accept they had to leave power. This was the only way.
**The bad**
* When he stepped into his post as minister of the economy 8 months ago Kiril Petkov signed a sworn declaration he was NOT a citizen of any other nation. This turned out to be false, as at the time of putting his signature to the sworn declaration he was also a canadian citizen. This is a very bad precedent, made much worse by the fact he lied for months and then tried to spin it that he didn’t “feel” like a canadian citizen.
* A large amount of his party are people who work in or own NGOs funded by one embassy.
* Their entire name is “we continue the change” and their motto is that they are “new” and fresh and against the status quo, yet the coalition of government is literally with the communist party that ruled Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989, was renamed the socialists and then ruled from 1991 to 1997 and 2004-2009, the oldest party in the country and the same party that was the cause of the massive 2012 protests that most of the “fresh faces” were in. Also the same party that proposed the famous oligarch Peevski as head of the national security service.
* There are credible rumors that the reason they’re in government is to push the 3 things the former government resisted, the istanbul convnention, the veto against Northern Macedonia and mandatory vaccination. They have acted on these already. I am not for or against these, or saying whether you should be, simply stating that those 3 things are mostly agreed upon by citizens, which means it’d be a government doing it for another reason and a government doing things AGAINST its citizens is something I’d personally classify as bad in a democracy.
* Despite winning the elections we had record low turnout and they won with effectively 9% of all available votes in the nation. I believe this is the government with the lowest % of votes in the entire EU and possibly among the lowest in the world.
* Just as it was a positive, a lot of people are expecting them to deliver on every promise and turn the country around – which is a very bad precedent. To explain I should state in 2001 the former King of Bulgaria came back and became prime minister, he promised he would fix the country in 800 days. He did not. However, he did a LOT of good, including basically getting us into the EU, all of which was negated because expectations were too high.
* Partly because they were formed in like a month a lot of the members of his party are a little too fresh with nearly no biography to speak of
That’s more or less what I can paint as a neutral picture. Hope I kept the balance.
Congratulations. He has to the at the very least be a marginal improvement over his predecessor
Let’s see whether Bulgaria will stil block Northern Macedonia from entering EU. Then we will see whether this is good or bad news.
The wealthy have been quite good at propaganda and financial support of whomever will best serve their interest. I don’t mean all of them. Just enough that the world in general feels unsafe and not moving in a fashion where money is invested in what is desperately needed (Climate change, ending poverty, etc.). My point is dividing people with fear and hate has turned into a very successful mechanism for keeping those with power in power. I would like to hear anything that is hopeful right now. Just any indication that the wealth inequality is abating.
He is a grad in business economics in Harvard University and was top 10 percent in his class. He founded the company Proviotic which is extemely sucessful product that is used worldwide, even [by Jovovic and Oprah Winfrey](https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/news/Novak_Djokovic/81126/how-to-build-a-vegan-brand-and-impress-novak-djokovic-amp-oprah-winfrey/)
Hope this guy takes your country in a good direction Bulgarians, hope all of you the best!
Let’s hope this one isn’t bought by the WEF mafia.