“It has taken three general elections for change to come in Bulgaria – but this week’s parliamentary vote gives cause to hope for genuine action on corruption”
Far too early to say that. The new government will be a big coalition so it may just fall apart in 6 months, or be completely ineffective. Not to mention it will have BSP in it
Let’s not oversell it. Democracy in Bulgaria has always been at the level where we can change the fool in charge, but not prevent the new one from stealing from the people like the last one.
I’m worried what “constitutional reforms” our president will be proposing next week. He’s power hungry and if he wants to make us a presidential republic, which has been floated around for a while, that would be worse than anything so far.
The new party seem like the latest fraudsters to me, but even so it would be healthy to get a change of power. Plus I’m actually very glad we’ll be getting a wide coalition government. Small party coalitions are a lot more democratic and better at governing IMO. And we might actually get some institutional and democratic reforms because each small party benefits more from preventing the others from abusing power than from abusing it itself. Their closeness to the president and unofficial dependencies might prevent that though.
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“It has taken three general elections for change to come in Bulgaria – but this week’s parliamentary vote gives cause to hope for genuine action on corruption”
Far too early to say that. The new government will be a big coalition so it may just fall apart in 6 months, or be completely ineffective. Not to mention it will have BSP in it
Let’s not oversell it. Democracy in Bulgaria has always been at the level where we can change the fool in charge, but not prevent the new one from stealing from the people like the last one.
I’m worried what “constitutional reforms” our president will be proposing next week. He’s power hungry and if he wants to make us a presidential republic, which has been floated around for a while, that would be worse than anything so far.
The new party seem like the latest fraudsters to me, but even so it would be healthy to get a change of power. Plus I’m actually very glad we’ll be getting a wide coalition government. Small party coalitions are a lot more democratic and better at governing IMO. And we might actually get some institutional and democratic reforms because each small party benefits more from preventing the others from abusing power than from abusing it itself. Their closeness to the president and unofficial dependencies might prevent that though.