Coalition United

Novinite Insider » EDITORIAL | January 6, 2006, Friday // 00:00

By Despina Koleva

Two of Bulgaria's ruling coalition partners may tango together yet another ballot. The former king's centrists appear willing to embrace a renowned Socialist in a breathtaking dance to entertain voters in the coming presidential elections, it emerged Tuesday.

Centrist Simeon II National Movement (SIINM) may back the country's current president, Georgi Parvanov, at the ballot.

The information concerning the move emerged from Borislav Ralchev, an MP from SIINM. The former king's party is one of the factions that currently form a ruling three-way coalition with the Socialists and the predominantly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms.

No matter how you look at it, Parvanov is a rank Socialist, despite recent rumors saying his relations with the party have cooled off. The guy has literally grown up within its structures and made a solid career moving up Socialist ranks. But he has been as good a president as any, I reckon.

Therefore, I intend to hereby abstain from questioning his persona and qualifications for heading the state once again. For what most of us Bulgarians know only too well is that not many a politician throughout our history have been outstandingly qualified to perform their job.

What indeed interests me more is how exactly this partnership is to be carried out.

Ralchev said siding with Parvanov may be possible but he refrained from clarifying the conditions in which such an act of profound political bondage is to burgeon.

I am deeply aware that there is yet some time before the election itself and that the political entity as a whole is to a large degree used to act in the last possible moment.

Besides, the fact that SIINM will support Parvanov does not, in any case, necessarily mean that centrist adherents will back the current president as well.

Yet, above all doubts, I cannot escape the obtrusive feeling that something is to turn very rotten in the process of consorting SIINM with Parvanov. Especially when I take a look back to last summer's general elections and the way both Socialists and centrists acted.

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