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Evgeniy Kanev: Russia's grip on Bulgaria will tighten ever tighter

The attack on democracy always begins with the electoral process

Mar 12, 2025 13:02 161

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The TV address of the President of the Constitutional Court is considered unprecedented not because it is the first time from this institution. But because for the first time from such a rostrum another state institution is accused of stealing the elections, which means stealing democracy.

This is what Evgeniy Kanev warns about on "Facebook".

It is no coincidence that it is from this president - Judge Panova is one of the few judges with a preserved professional reputation and integrity. I recall that years ago she was a competitor of Lozan Panov for the post of President of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the democratic community was behind her candidacy. This had affected Lozan Panov, who was considered a candidate of the status quo and seemed to make him ambitious to free himself from this label. You don't think that any Georgimarkovite would make such an address.

And now only the blind in the country do not understand that for a political event of such magnitude, the prosecutor's office was activated only after explicit instructions from Peevski - the main beneficiary of the Kostinbrod affair of 2013. After which his political rise began and has been like this for 12 years. It is hardly a coincidence that today Sarafov's deputy is the judge who was responsible for the affair at the time, and the prime minister - the person who was accused of this affair, Zhelyazkov.

In practice, through this affair GERB was tamed, and Borisov became, willy-nilly, Peevski's junior partner. And Peevski's power has nowhere to come from if he does not have behind him a large country from the East, which urgently needed South Stream at the time, which was, however, thwarted by the European Commission and Obama's USA. But successfully built by Borisov as Turkish Stream after the election of Trump and … Radev in 2016.

The attack on democracy always starts with the electoral process - in the same 2016 there was Brexit. And it seems that for the first time the West understood that Russia is waging a large-scale disinformation war in the information platforms of developed democracies. And it practices political engineering in less developed democracies, where it exploits the dependencies of the political elite to install its own personnel. Around whom it develops its ecosystem.

I often say that Borisov is a prototype of Trump, instead of the other way around, because of his age. Because the age of Russian political products in Bulgaria is at least a decade older than that in the US. And one day it may come to light how Musk influenced the 2024 elections, like Peevski in our country. In certain sections.

Russia's grip on Bulgaria will tighten ever more as we let one person determine the election result and the president remain silent about the elections, busy with verbal attacks against Europe.

It is important that we do not remain silent.