I thought only suitcases had a double bottom, but it wasn't! The last elections in France showed that the directives of Brussels and the arrogance of Emmanuel Macron are not enough to reconcile the peoples to a government based on “Artificial Intelligence”. For a long time, the authorities have guided public opinion through the mass media. There have been periods in which the governed and the rulers have been profitable. These were periods of growth and prosperity. Historians remind us that Europe went through a similar period for 70 years because it developed in peace.
As a result of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the situation has radically changed. The new circumstances affected my two preferred countries - France and Bulgaria. For the European elections in Paris and most cities, nearly 45% of the fifty million French eligible to vote cast their ballots for right-wing parties. For the first time since the time of De Gaulle, who declared that France has “the dumbest right in the world”, Jordan Bardela and his superior Marine Le Pen are on the threshold of power.
Emmanuel Macron who thought himself invincible, like being stung by a wasp, without consulting anyone, dissolved the parliament the day after the election. His ministers, who had been literally carrying him on their backs for seven years, greeted his decision as scalded. The president scheduled new elections in just three weeks, without any preparation! With this action, Macron instead of mobilizing his people for a new political battle, he punished them with the contempt of a teacher who punishes repeat offenders.
Lost second place in popularity in the eyes of voters, Macron's “Renaissance“ opened the way to the parliament for the suddenly united left forces in the “People's Front”. The programs of the various parties and currents vary in various directions. Among them are lifting all bans on foreign asylum seekers, raising low wages to €2,000 gross, up to a 32-hour work week and a pension at age 60. The massacre of October 7 in Israel has been forgotten, at the expense of “Hamas”, whose members were made into fighters for the liberation of Palestine from the Jewish colonizers.
Their flags are not French, but Palestinian. The ideologist of the movement is a neo-Trotskyist – Jean Luc Mélenchon. Their weakness is the absence of a working class – the engine of every Marxist revolution. In the face of the socially weak inhabitants of the ghettos, with a Mohammedan faith, Mélenchon has found a new motor in favor of the imagined anti-capitalist revolution. Every day, mostly in Paris, modern revolutionaries smash ATMs, set fire to cars and break the windows of luxury stores after emptying them. They commit pre-election outrages because they know that neither the Bolsheviks nor they will gain power through the ballot box. This militant left is the second bottom of democracy in France. The more its members break, burn and steal, the more hope grows in Jordan Bardella.
In Bulgaria “The double bottom“ is radically different. On the territory of the country, no one breaks ATMs, scratches broken crosses and waves Palestinian flags. The double bottom works in gnome restaurants, masonic lodges, and well-kept barns. Political bargaining is at the level of the “Capital Bazaar”. The agreements are behind the scenes and rest on the most complex and expensive electoral law in Europe. It allows party leaders to escape the penal vote of the electorate by heading the lists in two places.
Another gross violation of the principles of democracy is the removal of already elected candidates and their replacement by protégés of the leaders. In this way, Kiril Petkov, at his own discretion, expelled Nastimir Ananiev from the parliament and replaced him with Boyko Rashkov, known for his numerous properties acquired through successful marriages and divorces.
In these difficult times for the left, Bulgarians who still believed in leftist ideals thought that they had gotten rid of the ill-fated dictatorship of Cornelia Ninova after her resignation. Knowing the intricacies of the absurd electoral system, Korni took a step aside and again entered the parliament, but through the “Blagoevgrad Gate”. Thus, “The Red Fox“ secured a parliamentary seat for his adviser Kaloyan Metodiev.
Thanks to the Blagoevgrad voters from the minority for rights and freedoms, for the third time in a row, Elena Yoncheva, the former teammate of Ninova, sneaked to Brussels. For honor and ideals, forget. Obviously, the rights of Bulgarian citizens are being trampled upon, in the face of the unmoved inaction of the Constitutional Court. Excuses about legality won't convince anyone. As a result of the ugly spectacle in the next election, the mushroom party will surely surpass the current 2/3. The question of the legitimacy of the political model is knocking on the door with all its might.
Currently, dramatic events are taking place in Europe, which will inevitably affect Bulgaria as well, a country where the same party has dominated for 14 years. Its creator once boasted to Macron - “parle française!“ The same politician hinted to friends that he did not need foreign languages. It was enough for him to watch how Merkel voted for him to make up his own mind. Given that Jordan Bardella takes the post of Prime Minister of France, it will be very funny how Boyko Borisov will “parle française“ with him?