There is unfinished work on the part of the institutions or poorly done work, which leads to a transfer of responsibility. Traditionally in Bulgaria, responsibility is always thrown on the most empowered figure or the most empowered institution, in this case, the prosecutor's office. The other mechanism through which we cope is to pass the ball and run behind twisted explanations and put in place regulations.
This is what social anthropologist Haralan Alexandrov told FOCUS regarding the case of the recount of the ballots and the controversy that arose between the Constitutional Court, "Information Service", the Central Election Commission and the Prosecutor's Office.
"All this is quite destructive, since trust in the political system and in the electoral procedure, which is not high anyway, suffers further. Regardless of what the Constitutional Court's decision will be, I hope it will serve as a lesson to Bulgarian institutions and that they will treat their task responsibly and conscientiously," he said, adding that there is no public dissatisfaction with the case, as Bulgarians are already accustomed to the fact that elections are something like a "zero-sum game in which all kinds of fraud and deceit are permissible," which also explains the low voter turnout.
In his words, the real concerns of Bulgarians are related to the difficult economic situation, related to the risk of a major conflict, related to the major turbulences and changes in the geopolitical layers, which are shifting dramatically.
"All these factors lead to very high levels of anxiety and uncertainty, which put the relatively fragile governance of the state to an additional test. And in such a situation of such high uncertainty and unpredictability, the additional pumping of uncertainty and shaking of the existing system is extremely destructive and is not accepted enthusiastically by society".
"The feeling is that democracy is in deep crisis everywhere and that Bulgaria rather stands as some predictable island of calm on this map", he also believes, and according to him, no one is particularly interested in what is happening in Bulgaria against the backdrop of what is happening mainly in the USA and all the talk about the war in Ukraine.
"We are in a position to send another bad signal if we again fall out of this fragile stability that we achieved with this government and get involved in internal disputes. This will finally remove the country from the group of countries that can be relied on for some large common project. This will contribute to our entry into the gray zone," the social anthropologist is categorical.
According to him, the political crisis in our country is chronic and obviously will not be resolved through elections. For him, the problem must be solved through intelligent integration of the different forms of representation in the country, and when different political visions enter into dialogue, governing the country becomes possible.
"I think that this strange and, in normal circumstances, quite unusual and problematic coalition turned out to be a good solution," he pointed out.
It has never been so colorful from different centers of political messages, but this is the characteristic of the era in which we live, Haralan Alexandrov also believes.
"One of the main characteristics of late modernity, of the late industrial era in which we are, is the exceptional differentiation. The extreme fragmentation of society into many groups, each of which is quite distinct and has its own version of itself, its own identity and its own project.
And the great skill is how these groups learn to live together, to correspond with each other, to harmonize their projects and to move forward for the common good. This is the skill and we are teaching it movement", he said, and according to him, a remarkable growth and maturation of the Bulgarian political elite has been observed in recent years "as a result of the crisis in which it was immersed, not without its participation, from which it is trying to emerge now".
The social researcher pointed out that overcoming the political crisis will occur along the path of the principle of complex systems, in which a subsystem, a small part of the large global system, must find the resource within itself to reflect all aspects of the big world. In other words, within the political system of Bulgaria, political organizations and representations should be formed that would correspond to and express the various major global trends.
"And this is happening. We have an exponent of the ultra-globalists, for whom it is best for the nation-state with its laws, rules and restrictions to wither away. The exponent of this view in our country is the PP-DB. There is a deeply conservative view, at least in several varieties, with "Velichie" being one of them with its particular combination of entrepreneurship and corporate project and a strongly nationalist identity.
Separate from them are "Vazrazhdane" with the idea of returning to the roots and maintaining the national identity. GERB, which has a very strong pro-European identification and values, but at the same time are carriers of precisely what is sustainable, stable and traditional. The BSP with all its ideological twists and turns, which, although left-wing, went through a very nostalgic patriotic period under the leadership of Ms. Ninova, now seems to be returning to its agenda of social justice.
In his words, each of these organizations, each of these parties, in some way corresponds to some of the major movements and developments in the outside world, and this is not bad, because it is able to be in touch with it and, if circumstances change, to take over the interaction with this part of the global powers.
"All this is good to have. We may not like it, we may annoy us, we may not share these values, but we must have both a pro-Russian and a pro-European wing, and now two pro-American wings, plus everything else.