The new party is “Greater Bulgaria”
A working version of the name has been approved by the acting officers and reservists
Force the project for early elections
Gen. Stefan Yanev pulls from the BSP electorate, nullifies “Change”
The new political project of Gen. Stefan Yanev will be called “Greater Bulgaria”, confirmed to “Trud” sources familiar with the party’s construction. The political disintegration of part of the coalition organization, according to all those with whom Trud talks, is the solution, the world is in crisis, and new elections are obviously relying on to be a solution. “The complete impotence of the presidential” We continue to change “is proven, the Constitution was damaged, which was ignored, and the costly compromise with the documents of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov does not justify the unprincipledness of the coalition,” said political analysts.
To a question with this name the formation will be registered, the answer is: “This is the working name that gathers the greatest approval at the time of the action of officers and reservists of the Bulgarian army.”
As Trud has already reported, the party will aim at patriotic, but also Russophile sentiments in our country.
The latter at first glance were protected by the position of a gene. Yanev regarding the position of our country on the crisis in Ukraine, who clearly said that “the adventurous and immature approach in politics is extremely dangerous, especially in view of the military conflict in Ukraine, its dimension and potential consequences.” Yanev distanced himself from Kiril Petkov and the PP on the eve of his resignation, but did not gain the support of the BSP, because Positano 20 has long suspected that the former defense president has a high rating and would pull from the thin red electorate in the formation of a new party. “Greater Bulgaria” will literally nullify “We continue the change”, and the future formation had an initial positive image in the diplomatic missions.
The ranks of the BSP have a serious interest in the political project that Yanev is preparing, the Socialists admitted to Trud. Activists say they are disillusioned that the BSP would have the best result in the next election compared to the last one.
“It is clear that once a party starts, there are not many mechanisms to bring to the bottom. In addition, participation in the BSP in the competent government will be completed by the left, “commented the Socialists. And they approve of the anti-NATO sentiments, the support for Russophilia and the national interest, and on this basis “the BSP will see a serious reservoir of party cadres for Stefan Yanev.”
The problem facing Greater Bulgaria is forcing the establishment of the project, which was scheduled to run in September. “We will have to make compasses with the staff, which is a risk at the moment,” it turned out succinctly close to the future general formation.
Early elections in June are the deadlines that are already fixed in the political calendar. The question of the days is to outline the profile – whether there will be time to register or will resort again to the coalition platform, similar to “We continue to change.”
A factor in the future party, as Trud already reports, is expected to be the resignation of Deputy Minister of Defense Ralitsa Simeonova, who works very well with Yanev. “I have no obstructions regarding the participation in allied formats. However, I do not accept a situation in which Bulgarian politicians do not adequately protect our interests in these specific formats. I do not approve of the conformist approach, which turns us into a rubber stamp to confirm foreign decisions made for our country “, Simeonova answered the question from the support on Facebook, whether the decision is Bulgaria to open NATO.
The legend of the quarreling generals
Relations with Radev will be tested through Ravnets
The disappointment of Rumen Radev earns “We continue the change” will force political engineers to reunite with the closeness of the two generals and otherwise old friends. Radev almost publicly denied his former security adviser Stefan Yanev when he said after his resignation: “As Minister of Defense I expected more – both as an initiative and as a commitment to the problems of the Bulgarian army, and as a job guaranteed to her combat capability to accelerate modernization processes ”. A day earlier, Radev defended Yanev and spoke out against his change of government.
Analysts saw in Radev’s distinction a scenario for positioning “Greater Bulgaria” as a project independent of the presidency. Whether the legend of the cooled relations between the two will be understood, will probably be shown by the list of deputies of “Greater Bulgaria” in Burgas, succinct election expertise was received before “Trud”.
This part of the Southern Black Sea coast is called the “Radev region” because he worked at the Ravnets air base – a division of the Air Force. “Even as acting prime minister. Yanev said he had not come around, and Radev was in the region twice last month. It was rumored that he had an official dinner at Interhotel-Bulgaria with close people, friends and sympathizers at the closing of the doors and the big secret “, the former military told Trud.
Prof. Antoaneta Hristova, political psychologist, in front of “Trud”: Radev will be interested in elections so that he can impose Yanev with a regular cabinet
The government is crumbling
According to external data, the crisis in the left-liberal space continues. Cornelia Ninova and the BSP won the battle, but I am afraid that they will not win the war in the company in which she is. This is their high society and it shows more the degree of incompetence, wrong with the problems in the country, with the crisis. On the contrary, the opposite is true – the existence is that their incompetence will be in a greater crisis than objectively, external factors determine it. The BSP lost to the coalition, which at the time was needed to protect relations with Radev.
We see that he wants to save himself from the devaluation of the image, with came the PP, which will be used through the new political project of General Yanev. And this new political project is practically in competition with the BSP, because you will choose from there. He will probably take both Vazrazhdane and ITN, a group of people with left-conservative, Russophile attitudes.
In any case, this government will probably not last very long, and that is a liberal left. It was built to be so and then to be enlarged. As it crumbles, the president is looking for a new political representative of himself.
It is impossible to say whether there is a gap or not between Radev and Yanev – everyone plays for himself, portrays his reactions to interest. There are things that Yanev obviously interferes with Radev and vice versa.
Serious mutual blows between them began. That is why it does not seem likely to me that the government will be reformatted within this parliament. Increasingly, Radev is interested in elections so that he can impose Yanev with a regular cabinet.
At the time of the war, Yanev was riding the patriotic wave in Bulgarian society and I assume that in order to use it, the president will have an interest in early elections, which is possible as soon as possible.
Assoc. Prof. Stoycho Stoychev, political scientist, in front of “Trud: Yanev is not able to hold future elections alone
The political system is amorphous
It has long been clear that there is no room for new political actors because it offers nothing new. In general, they are supposed to make new faces, but lately they are not creating that either. So there is no place from a meaningful point of view, but because it is a very amorphous political system in our country, at least some of the voters, look for new projects, new people disappointed with the old ones, for it there is a race in the political. Several projects are being prepared, they are currently left, because we have the right ones realized on the ground. The left is mainly the so-called young left, who wants to have a normal socialist party, because the BSP has not been like that for a long time, and of course the people around President Radev who want to use prestige, authority and high ratings to reap purely party dividends. Speculate whether Stefan Yanev’s party will be close to the president. It is clear that Radev will not formally associate with her, not only because he says so, but also because, from the president’s point of view, he is able to model public opinion better than he is closely associated with any party. In this way he can afford to always be on the side of the populist thesis and thus hit one shoulder of the political party he liked. In the other case, of course, to maintain the prestige and authority he has.
It is clear that Stefan Yanev will form a party. In itself, he is probably sympathetic to some group of people on the page, but he is not able to make a party that will be a resounding success in the upcoming elections – say local, if there is a goal to declare. His target is more Vazrazhdane voters, because it is clear that he will target more pro-Russian, anti-NATO people. At least from his actions in the last week, this is evident.
Although his purely biographical connection with NATO, with the United States, this one is a more neutral position, arguing that Bulgaria should have a more neutral position in the conflict at the moment, in practice serving the Russian thesis. Because Russian policy would achieve the most of NATO countries that are supported by any action.
Prof. Mihail Mirchev, sociologist and political scientist, in front of “Trud”: The rating of “We continue the change” is a bubble and will soon burst
There is no masculinity in our political class
Along three lines, a wide space is already opening for a new political project – we understand a party or some political movement. First, because the research of my colleagues began to appear, which shows that the ratings of ITN, BSP, DB are reduced twice. There is a very significant reduction in GERB, although relatively the least. And for now, only the MRF is sustainable, we all know why. Experiment with new parties from 2021 practically crashed. Formally, a high percentage rating of “We continue the changes” and Kiril Petkov is maintained, but they create conflicts and disputed actions related to national interests and this rating in my opinion is a bubble and will soon be burst. What we expect in 2021 – a new project, with a new leader, now, in early March, but in the evening of 2022, we are in line again. Left, right, smarter and more emotional voters are once again facing a huge political vacuum.
The second, this military operation, which began on February 24, the whole propaganda point is extremely one-sided in reaction and interpretation. The only politician who tried to balance and calm this one-sidedness was Gen. Stefan Yanev. Now he is carried away by the wave of high emotion, of high anti-Russian emotion. Everything is not yet included in our political space.
And the third reason is, not wanting to offend anyone, but masculinity in our political class. Compare the psychological image of Kiril Petkov with that of Gen. Stefan Yanev. Apparently this line also has a vacuum and growth. I understand how delicate the last thing I said was. But this is the kind of first instinct of the electorate.