„We must say that a 30% drop in turnover is a very good success for citizens. And I think they showed enough solidarity when some public action was announced. We cannot expect them to have no turnover, we cannot expect immediate measures. This is public pressure that citizens can exert, both on politicians and on the owners of large chains, who undoubtedly set very large markups on goods“.
The topic of the boycott was commented on by municipal councilor Vanya Grigorova to NOVA.
„In a collapsed state, civil pressure is the unity that people have a right to and for which they have some hope. A country where the trade union movement is confined only to the state sector and has practically not spread to the private sector, people are deprived of any form of resistance and therefore these are moral acts. The question is what these moral acts aim at. From here on, our differences probably begin, because all this rests on hope in the state“, said media expert Diana Damyanova.
“In this case, what people are doing with their protest is actually an attempt to force those who should regulate to regulate“, she added.
According to Grigorova, the measures taken by the authorities are only part of those that should be taken. “But I think they are infinitely insufficient“, she noted.
Damyanova also commented on the topic of the dispute between the leader of “There is such a people“ Slavi Trifonov and the co-chairman of “We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria“ Kiril Petkov, who exchanged sharp remarks on social networks on Saturday evening. The reason - Petkov's presence at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
“Kiril Petkov is a free citizen, he can walk wherever he sees fit, by whose invitation he finds. It is a bit ridiculous that he claims to hold bilateral meetings when it is not clear who the other party is. But his freedom to go, talk, and lobby for Bulgaria, because he can only talk in this status at the moment, is completely inviolable“, stated Damyanova.