Comment by Ivaylo Noyzi Tsvetkov:
I will not keep you waiting: the new Bozanov/Mirchev diarchy sends the voters the wonderful and somehow ancient Roman republican message that in today's conditions of furious populism and almost one-man power, it is possible to have “two consuls“. Whether this will be assessed as a wonderful democratic practice by the voters of "Democratic Bulgaria", however, is a second and somewhat separate question. (I still don't understand what was wrong with Hristo Ivanov, with whom 9 years ago we were among the 25 who founded this new, relatively right-wing and democratic community, but nothing, that's what he thought.)
Why did I refer to Rome? Because it somehow resembles the republic there (509 to 27 BC), and excluding the centuria, the two consuls take turns, exchange “fascias (Latin fasces - a bundle of sticks, a symbol of power in Ancient Rome), etc. In order to distinguish themselves from the previous kings, the pair of consuls can veto any decision of the other. Ergo, if we return to our country, “Democratic Bulgaria“ has a huge chance with this diarchy to produce a completely new and mature policy.
The main task before "Democratic Bulgaria"
Why is the keyword "mature"? Because the DB has only one super task – to stop being “guerilla”, as it was conceived, and to become a serious and traditional party that will fight for its causes in parliament. Otherwise, it is a kind of sect, in the eyes of many, and also a kind of victim of the reverse propaganda that every DB action was paid for from the outside.
And first and foremost, in addition to ceasing to be “partisan", to stop being a single-issue party that gets up and goes to bed with Delyan Peevski on its lips. (By the way, Peevski was the most adequate on the occasion of the presidential referendum on the euro - don't pay attention to him, completely ignore him.)
Forget the word "Peevski"
In general, the DB made it so that this Peevski thing got out of hand, they became a laughing stock even among their own ultras voters, and gave rise to memes like "the refrigerator broke, it must be Peevski again". As a founder and now an observer, I offer them the only political salvation - to become a real, God willing, traditional party that loves me and its possible voter in Sliven, let's say.
The two formal leaders (and their hobbits and beautiful middle-aged influencers) should split from going to places and creating local structures, because otherwise the Sliven voter, who believes in democracy, simply does not know who they are. And why their cause is just.
In a more general cultural sense, the DB (regardless of whether in coalition with the PP or not) should urgently forget the word “Peevski“, and concentrate on becoming a TRADITIONAL party, with an apology for the capital letters. That is, to get out of their lunar cycle and second home, figuratively speaking, in which they are angry with everyone and everything, and try to really gain power. Because now, to be honest, for a decade now they have been behaving like what they are – just noisy marginals, from whom nothing follows. I have always been one of them, so I know best.
There is only one way out
How to do it? Very simple – stop pleasing only your ultras. None of them know what power is, nor even what opposition is in parliament; many of you, led by the new dualist leaders, have seen how parliament produces nothing in this version, especially Bozanov. If there is a way out, it is in the recognition that only in power can the DB accomplish something – and not in the square, because the final square product in 1997, in 2013, and in 2020 – was a political zero. Ergo, become a traditional party, be even disgusting populists if you have to, but… be.
Who should lead? Bozanov with his wonderful ideas for a new digital Bulgaria, or Mirchev, with the feeling that even in Hristo's boat he longed to be the successor-leader? I recommend only one thing: everyone go to Sliven. And to a hundred other towns and villages. Otherwise, you will die even in Sofia.