The former PR of "Continuing the Change" Diana Damyanova commented on her Facebook page the video with Kiril Petkov, in which he greets Yavor Dyankov, whom he calls "sensei", and then the latter tells him that "everything is settled".
We publish the entire comment without editorial intervention:
First, whether we like it or not, we must admit that Promynata is alive, which is evident from the huge number of people who went to support Kiril Petkov. A truly impressive number, considering the country's declining civic engagement.
And don't tell me that these were party activists. They may have been, but when with a call like "Hands off Change" you are able to gather a large group of people for a meaningless cause, it means that you are on the ground.
I assume that the recent events, where Change preferred to remain in fierce opposition rather than negotiate for a future government, have somehow united its ranks. But that's its business.
The second thing to note is that those present there /probably around 500 people/ are by no means idiots. I know a lot of them, and no, they are not idiots.
And they didn't go there because they think that Kiril Petkov's actions in arresting Borisov were legal. They went there because they think /convincedly/ that on the path to good /greatness, justice, prosperity, etc./ GOOD FORCES ARE NOT OBLIGED TO OBEY THE LAW. The same thing that Kiril thought on the day he ordered the arrest.
And here we come to the main point. Are the good forces authorized, and by whom, to work for our good, without complying with our bad laws?
You will say, yes, but the people don't give them all the power so that they can change the bad laws and they are forced to walk a rather steep and difficult path to "implement" the good little, so to speak by force.
This moral dilemma, if you have not been voted all the power so that you can "punish the bad" and build a good legal and social order, whether you have the right to violate the law and realize "your good", despite the law, this dilemma has never faced Kiril.
He knows that /especially when he is elected minister – chairman/ he has been given full trust, he is expected to bring good /according to his criteria/ to the Bulgarian people and if some law prevents him, through convincing the institutions and the people in them, through the repeated "just saying", he will manage to realize his goal.
And that his sympathizers and activists will find this not only right, but also heroic.
Therefore, there is no moral dilemma there, but there is the conviction that once you are appointed by the people to do good, you are obliged to do it, even by slightly /or not so slightly/ circumventing the law.
And for this Nayo is not at all guilty.
He is guilty of having adorned Kiril with a microphone, when in their nearly two years of common practice he should know very well that Kiril and his relatives are often beyond verbal control.
He is guilty of having allowed once uploaded the video, to be taken down, which has aroused the extraordinary interest in it and, excuse me, is a kind of admission that there is something wrong /or very stupid/ in this video.
He is guilty of then trampling Kiril at some kind of briefing, where he says that he has no idea what was said in his ear, to which he responded with "thank you, I understand".
In other words, that some sensei has allowed himself to "settle" an unsettled issue, just to give courage to his graduate, is part of the psychology of this "team".
We want, therefore we have the right.
And that is exactly the problem.
Source: FOCUS