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A Troubled Threesome
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Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)
By Milena Hristova
Prior to October elections, it was all about whether the Socialist president will win a second term and secure the survival of the three-party ruling coalition. Half a month after Parvanov re-election, frustrated Bulgarians witness the desperate attempts of the ministers to act as a happy family. And see Stanishev, Saxe-Coburg and Dogan going to great lengths to deny they pursue personal benefits. Not with great success, I thought as the ministers and their leaders headed to the resort of Borovets to iron out differences over the weekend.
What is wrong with the threesome?
Stanishev is known as an easily controllable politician because real power lies not in his office, but with informal leaders of his ex-communist party.
Saxe-Coburg might have learned that blue blood is not a prerequisite for political longevity in Bulgaria, but blood is thicker than water. The former king has always acted more with the shrewdness of a king rather than with the compassion of a statesman who identifies with his people and their concerns. Small wonder talk of political trade-off, involving his restored property, emerges time and again.
As for the leader of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Ahmed Dogan is working busily behind the scenes to broaden support ahead of Bulgaria's EU accession in 2007.
The key cabinet posts that Dogan has is the apple of discord in the coalition. The ethnic Turks are hungry to pocket huge part of the funds that Bulgaria will receive after EU accession and want to lay their hands on the new ministry for forest and waters. Most likely it will be hatched after the Christmas holidays.
The bickering shows once more that Bulgaria's disease is not economic. It is political and mental. It is only after the political machine starts operating smoothly that the country's heath may improve.
The coalition members claim the political machine is set in place.
The Bulgarian people don't give a damn any more.
And Europe is watching closely.
At the end of the day it is whether we enter the EU with dignity that matters most. Calculating the price of the fireworks for January 1 festivities should be our last concern.
Prior to October elections, it was all about whether the Socialist president will win a second term and secure the survival of the three-party ruling coalition. Half a month after Parvanov re-election, frustrated Bulgarians witness the desperate attempts of the ministers to act as a happy family. And see Stanishev, Saxe-Coburg and Dogan going to great lengths to deny they pursue personal benefits. Not with great success, I thought as the ministers and their leaders headed to the resort of Borovets to iron out differences over the weekend.
What is wrong with the threesome?
Stanishev is known as an easily controllable politician because real power lies not in his office, but with informal leaders of his ex-communist party.
Saxe-Coburg might have learned that blue blood is not a prerequisite for political longevity in Bulgaria, but blood is thicker than water. The former king has always acted more with the shrewdness of a king rather than with the compassion of a statesman who identifies with his people and their concerns. Small wonder talk of political trade-off, involving his restored property, emerges time and again.
As for the leader of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Ahmed Dogan is working busily behind the scenes to broaden support ahead of Bulgaria's EU accession in 2007.
The key cabinet posts that Dogan has is the apple of discord in the coalition. The ethnic Turks are hungry to pocket huge part of the funds that Bulgaria will receive after EU accession and want to lay their hands on the new ministry for forest and waters. Most likely it will be hatched after the Christmas holidays.
The bickering shows once more that Bulgaria's disease is not economic. It is political and mental. It is only after the political machine starts operating smoothly that the country's heath may improve.
The coalition members claim the political machine is set in place.
The Bulgarian people don't give a damn any more.
And Europe is watching closely.
At the end of the day it is whether we enter the EU with dignity that matters most. Calculating the price of the fireworks for January 1 festivities should be our last concern.
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