Политика

On March 1, MP Panayot Lyakov gave a press conference on "What happened in the UDF and why I can not be in this party?". He reiterated his thesis that the UDF has lost its leadership positions and has no vision for Bulgaria, turning from a party of change into a supporter of the status quo. As the most worrying sign, he pointed to the separation from citizenship and the division between the UDF and its most ardent supporters. The contagion of clientelism, conformity, resignation, cowardice has penetrated so deeply into the party fabric that the UDF has no resistance forces, no inner life, no energy, and paralysis is ubiquitous. The model is a faade, butaphoric democracy, behind which a political establishment, entangled with mafia structures, controls and exercises power for its own self-interest and to the detriment of the public interest. For the "blue dealers" the dilemma "UDF - leader or dealer?" never existed because the leader earns trust, and it does not cost money. For them, the supreme value is the principle "anything can be negotiated" and the magic is gone, and behind the three sacred letters dirt has accumulated.
Mr. Lyakov announced that he had taken the "difficult step", although he is related to the UDF, because "the courage to be a politician is to face the painful reality and to step over the illusion of a revival of UDF, because there is no escape from the clientelist quagmire and there are no miracles in politics." People have told us that we have lost our courage and are not fighting political battles, we are not fierce and irreconcilable, but hesitant, meek and smiling opposition and from a party of action we have become a party of declarations. We have been accused of turning politics from a clash of ideas into a race of personal ratings and declaring principles we do not respect and throwing away political responsibility. For this they asked us to create a new formation, announced the MP. A Constituent Committee has been established and work is underway on the statutes of the new formation, which will be something different from all the currently existing parties. A meeting with sympathizers in Pazardzhik is forthcoming, and the constituent assembly will be likely in May.
Veska Bozhkova