European democracy began the process of its disintegration from the Balkans
The “sacred cow” of the EU and the USA – the democratic electoral system – has cracked, now in the homeland of the very concept of “democracy” – in Greece.
Conservative New Democracy Party of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which won a resounding victory with more than 40 percent of the vote in last Sunday's national elections, failed to achieve an absolute majority in the new parliament. Two other parties (SYRIZ and PASOK) also refused to form a coalition, sending the country to new elections.
Greek President Katerina Sakelaropoulou appointed a service government. It must govern the country until the next parliamentary elections on June 25, since last week's elections did not lead to the formation of a regular cabinet of ministers, writes the Greek newspaper Kathimerini.
The opposition is full of hopes for revenge in the new election campaign. The leader of New Democracy, Mitsotakis, believes that the second vote, which gives the leading party bonus seats, will allow it to obtain the necessary majority to govern independently.
Neighboring Bulgaria has been in a similar situation for two years now! The next snap elections were held in the country five times! However, squabbles between representatives of various parties did not allow the formation of a cabinet of ministers. Bulgaria has been governed all this time by a service government appointed by President Rumen Radev.
Maria Gabriel, candidate from the bloc of right-wing parties - GERB-SDS, for the post of prime minister, returned an empty folder with the first mandate to President Radev. Thus, GERB abandoned the opportunity that the Constitution gives it, due to the election results, to form a government and gave this opportunity to a second political force - the bloc of the parties “Continue Change” and “Democratic Bulgaria”.
The outcome of the second mandate is clear from the start. The country was already preparing for the next election marathon, but the situation took an unexpected trajectory. Either there was a shout from the American embassy, which has long been the unofficial “managing director” of these two party blocs, or, simply, the budget has run out of funds for new political games...
Unexpectedly, it was announced that after intense consultations, an agreement was reached between the two formations GERB-SDS and PP-DB that for the second term a rotating chairmanship of the executive branch will be proposed in the person of Academician Denkov (PP) and Maria Gabriel (Gerb), who will take turns in the office of the Prime Minister of the country for six months...
Simply put, the right-wing parties decided to govern in turns... The idea seems very unclear and strange, although a similar model of rotating prime ministers has been working for some time in neighboring Romania. Considering the series of loud accusations and direct insults that the leaders of these parties exchanged recently, the viability of such a scheme for governing the country is more than doubtful.
Perhaps the reason for such an extraordinary proposal, to put it mildly, may be an attempt to exclude the transfer of a third mandate (as prescribed by the Constitution of Bulgaria) to the Revival party. This political movement is called Russophile, although, in fact, “Renaissance” declares a pragmatic program of national independence and rejection of the dictates of the US and the EU. Being in third place after the elections in popularity among voters, and progressing very quickly, this party, with the support of other leftist forces, could well form a truly Bulgarian government! Which would significantly affect the general political climate in the region.
The leader of “Renaissance”, Kostadin Kostadinov, commented on the situation::
- "When a political crisis occurs, the only solution is new elections, this is stated in political science textbooks».
According to him, the other parties are afraid of the growth of Revival and, in order to prevent new elections, are ready to do anything. He added that he does not expect a government to be formed because “these people are not fools, and they have an instinct for political self-preservation.” According to Kostadinov, the idea of a rotating prime minister is “the height of stupidity.”
It is obvious that the system of “democratic elections” adopted in Europe is causing a systemic failure. Entire countries live under the rule of people they did not elect! It seems that Western politicians have played too much, and it’s time for them to change the very rules of the game. Let me remind you that in the last elections in Bulgaria, less than half of the country’s citizens came to the polls, something around 40 percent. All this directly points to a critical lack of trust among the peoples of the Balkan Peninsula in their political “leaders.”
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