Fiasco and Hope After Bulgarian Government Resignation - Der Standard

Domestic | July 25, 2014, Friday // 13:01|  views

Bulgaria's former Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski. Photo by BGNES.

Bulgaria is in the middle of a systematic crisis, but the civil society against the Oresharski cabinet is a ray of light for democracy, an Austrian media outlet speculates.

In a commentary published on Der Standard website, author Markus Bernath claims that for fourteen months, the social-liberal Coalition for Bulgaria has been a fiasco. Not that much for the poor majority in the country which acquired some small benefits: more money for single mothers, small reductions in electricity bills. Better social policy is impossible in a country with so much anticommunism.

The government led by financier Plamen Oresharski was more than a debacle for the economy and the institutions of this country - member of the EU - the chosen parliament which was increasingly boycotted by those who lost the elections and pressurized by the street; the coalition which sought the support of far-right extremists without admitting it and which tried to make an oligarch and a media tycoon chairman of the secret service, the commentary reads.

The government's resignation and the early elections in October will not stop the ongoing instability. Bulgaria is stuck in a systematic crisis. It is in need of democracy reconstruction. The list of old and new mortgages that Oresharski leaves behind is spectacular: an indebted energy sector, South Stream, a bank with a billion-large hole, the oligarch Delyan Peevski and his supporters, an insufficient reform of the election code, decreasing investment. There is, however, a light in the tunnel, Bernath notes. The civil society against Oresharski will chase his successors with demands for higher transparency.

We need your support so Novinite.com can keep delivering news and information about Bulgaria! Thank you!


Tags: Plamen Oresharski, Bulgaria, government, resignation, Coalition for Bulgaria

Back  

» Related Articles:

Search

Search