Shkvarek: The problems in DPS look more like a clan and mafia conflict than a political conflict ᐉ News from Fakti.bg – Bulgaria

Is the rift between the two factions of the DPS a precondition for ethnic tensions in the country?

“I see the clear fear of people when it comes to an ethnic party, and if there is a serious divide within that party, that it has implications for the entire political system and also for national security. On the other hand, it is a myth that Bulgarians and Turks will grab each other by the throat if there is no DPS and we are savages from the third world who will kill ourselves if there is no one to sit in the barn and keep ethnic peace. I do not think that this historical role of DPS, which is talked about, is still relevant.“, said political analyst Kristijan Škvarek on “Day ON AIR”.
According to political scientist Teodor Slavev, there are no structural conditions for ethnic tensions.

“The battle for the acronym is a symbolic battle that is currently going through the legal phase, after which it will become very political. DPS was the party that mediated capital between the political parties and the government during the transition and is about to lose this role. This campaign will be very interesting. The epicenter will be in Kardzhali, because Mr. Dogan will lead the newspaper there, Mr. Peevski will also lead the newspaper. Maybe we should call on the leaders of the other parties to also bring their lists there to campaign, because they all claim that they want to break the monopoly on the vote of Bulgarian Turks.“Here – now is the time to do it,” the political scientist stressed to Bulgaria ON AIR.
Conflicts between parties affect the functioning of the state

According to Shkvarek, the problems within the DPS look more like a clan and mafia conflict than a political one.

“Two wings of an ethnic party are currently fighting. The role of politicians and political leaders is to take political positions. I do not expect them to take sides in almost civilized conflicts between two mafia cabinets, who are currently producing compromising documents about who stole what over time, as if they discovered it yesterday,” the political analyst noted.
Slavev is convinced that the shocks within the parties affect the functioning of the state.

“Everyone is looking at the election results, but the next parliament will be much more fragmented than the current one, even if we assume that both DPS break the 4 percent barrier. I expect that others will join as well – small parties, which will make governance even more difficult and complicated,” the guest said.

It is possible that more parties will enter the new parliament

According to Shkvarek, it is possible that there will be even more parties in the next parliament, because the turnout will be lower and the threshold for joining will therefore be very low.

“At the moment there is a commotion in two major parties, one is in DPS and it will not let tens of thousands of Turks vote at all, incredibly, and the other is the democratic community – PP-DB. These factors reduce the general turnout. What I do not agree with is that this necessarily means that there will be no cabinet. In the last 15 years, when we had a regular cabinet for 4 years, it happened under the conditions of an official majority and a hidden majority in small parties,” he stressed.
Slavev added that when the threshold is so low, there is a huge distortion of representativeness.

“Bulgarian society in terms of priorities, mood and visions for the future does not represent in any way what the National Assembly is. This low activity is a blight on the total output of what power produces. Now it turns out that an electorate that is scarce, in order to activate it in any way, the rhetoric has to go to extremes. Now there are candidates who talk about putting the gallows back on the street. There are candidates who propose that priests in city councils should have the right of veto – to return the church to the government of the state,” the political scientist said.