3K Poltava Str.
Bulgaria
In the paper will be analyzed the dramatic vicissitudes of political change in Bulgaria over the last three years. On July 9 2020 the President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev with a raised fist and the slogan "Mutri (Mafia) out!" led a democratic revolution against the 10-year rule of Boyko Borissov. Mass protests began, which in the elections of 4.04.2021 for the first time took away the majority of his party. We were faced up an incredible paradox: the process of change started as a people's protest against a corrupt governance and led to three years of sleeping of the political system, powerlessness and even more corrupt governance by a populist group tied to oligarchs and a financial pyramid. They built a political structure with a ridiculous name “We Continue the Change”! President Biden presented the name of future Prime Minister Petkov from a piece of paper, and the US ambassador coordinated all attempts to resolve the crisis. The party of the change came to power with shade financial and political support, and made a successful quadruple coalition in the end 2021.
The conducted analysis is based on the application of the concept of disease to the explanation of politics and political crisis in Bulgaria. It is expressed in the subordination of institutions and parties to the interests of economic oligarchs and in the failure to resolve the problems of citizens. The paper argues the conclusion that the model of political change in the interests of democracy and citizens based on an outside scenario is predestined to failure if there are no mature democratic institutions and the parties serve only the financial oligarchy. The analysis is carried out from the point of view of J. Buchanan’s project of constitutional political economy in order to make sense of the present-day political and social crisis in our country.
Key words: political change, model, democratic institutions, external scenario, disease of political system
Pepa Bouzova is Assistant Professor, doctor in Philosophy of Law and Politics, born 1982. She has a master’s degree in Law and Economics. Since 2021, she has been a full-time lecturer at the Department of Philosophical Sciences of the Faculty of Philosophy of Veliko Tarnovo University. She teaches logic, philosophy of law and philosophy of economics. Pepa Bouzova has 13 published papers in Bulgaria, Poland and Romania (orcid 0000-0002-5613-9509)