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The mayor is the city's most successful CEO, while his councilors look like departmental heads, restless to make sure the boss knows they are not sitting on their hands. Italy? No, this has been Bulgaria after the local vote in October, 2007.
The heady blend of politics and business has long ago become a national trait in Bulgaria, but the foray of businessmen into politics will be mind boggling during this year's local elections.
Theirs is no unrequited love. Political parties are also wooing wealthy businessmen, whom they see as the shortest route to hearts of the poor and hungry voters.
Back in 2007, the unprecedented interest of people outside the key political formations stemmed from the key role that local authorities were to play in distributing EU funds in the first years of Bulgaria's entry in the bloc.
Four years later, entrepreneurs are looking for ways to migrate from the business to the political arena not least because the experience so far has proved this to be a frictionless corruption machine.
Even the most unthinkable team-ups and scenarios are possible.
Just think of Detelina Nikolova, mayor of the northeastern city of Dobrich. Elected back in 2001 on the ticket of the former king's party NDSV, she secured her second term with the support of center-right GERB and is expected to win a third term thanks to the Socialists!
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