Journalist Valeri Naydenov is of the opinion that majoritarian elections are the cure for the sick political system in Bulgaria. According to him, under such a hypothesis, the next day we will wake up with a normal government. He expressed his opinion in an interview for the program "Face to Face" on bTV.
"The medicine is in the doctor's pocket, but they don't want to take it", he added.
According to him, what is happening at the moment, including the momentary flash with the election of the speaker of the parliament, is nothing more than "tactical success, which leads to an even greater strategic failure".
"The problem is that one was fat, the other was wearing a suit of some kind, they saw the third on some staircase, this one "played" a sneaky trick on that one. All this is meaningless and leads the wave to the destruction of political life," explained Naydenov.
What is a majoritarian electoral system and why, according to the journalist, will it make vote buying meaningless?
A majoritarian electoral system is an electoral system in which candidates must receive a majority of the votes in order to be elected. All single-person bodies of power (president, mayor) are elected using this system, but majority voting could also be used for parliamentary elections. Historically, the first electoral system to be implemented was the majoritarian one, and for a long period it was the only way to elect state bodies. There are several types of majoritarian electoral systems, such as first-past-the-post, first-past-the-post, and first-past-the-post. (First Past The Post) or the alternative majoritarian electoral system, which operates on the principle of preferences, with each voter ordering the party candidates on their ballot by preference: first, second, third, etc. Alternative majoritarian voting is carried out through multiple single-mandate electoral districts, in which voters vote by preference. After the first round, the votes from the first preferences of each candidate on each ballot are counted and the votes received are reproduced in a percentage ratio, and if one of the candidates receives an absolute majority, namely 50% + 1 vote, he wins the elections.
"Those who buy votes buy 3-4% in a given district, with a majoritarian system you need to have 51%, how do you buy so many votes on a national scale? Those who sell their votes are no more than 10%. This sharply reduces the meaning of buying votes. It's like throwing your money away," explained Valeri Naydenov.
"Personality plays different roles. In a given situation, a person behaves in one way, in another - in another. We live in an oligarchy - this is clear to everyone. When a candidate-deputy is appointed by the one who writes the lists - the oligarch and the owner of the party, his very psyche changes, he does not represent the interests of the electorate, but of his narrow circle. He completely breaks away from the population. He does not know who his voter is, and the voter does not know who his MP is. With a majority vote, it is exactly the opposite," the journalist pointed out.