Whose interpretation will prevail? We have Yet to see: Analysts upon the action taken by the Ministry of Interior

 The action, in which GERB leader Boyko Borissov, his personal PR while Prime Minister Sevdelina Arnaudova and former Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov were arrested on Thursday night, received various interpretations and it remains to be seen which one will prevail. This was commented on by analysts in the Darik program "The Week".

There are several hypotheses about what happened around the arrest of GERB leader Boyko Borissov, said Prof. Ivaylo Dichev. "The simplest thing is that the Minister of Interior just did something stupid, unprepared action. The second hypothesis from GERB - that a PR campaign is being carried out to divert attention, God knows what, from prices, etc. The third hypothesis I see in social networks, is that there is some information from Laura Coveschi, that she will be involved in this investigation and that in fact she is being tested by the prosecutor's office to be hit afterwards and that there are some documents for her, "said the anthropologist.

His sense in this regard is more general - "this country may not be governed democratically." According to him, these methods, which for years Boyko Borissov used to "overthrow the land and use force in general, must obviously be applied at the moment by the new government, which allegedly came with demands for democracy." For Dichev, this is a "sad finding, but I have the feeling that it will be very difficult and very slow to move to a regime of normal justice, normal relations in this area."

For his part, political scientist Parvan Simeonov commented that there was still some evolution in the repressive image of power. "We remember the arrests there were a decade ago and more. We remember how television justice was done. Politically, we have yet to see which interpretation will prevail," he said.

The political scientist stated that part of the agenda from 2020 was returning. weeks - East-West. What happened is good for the government, because it has been happening since 2020 - Borisov-anti-Borisov, "Simeonov commented.

According to him, the new government rules in a very hostile environment. "If there is a chance for our country here that this is a coalition government, because it has one left foot, one ten foot, it can balance, there are deterrents inside, which in such wartime situations implies a certain dialogue and unity," Parvan said. Simeonov.

 

Ivaylo Dichev stressed in this regard that in most countries in a situation of great crisis, such as the war, in which we are already involved anyway, there was the phenomenon of "unity under the flag" - raises the rating as Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Frenchman Emmanuel Macron. "In our country the opposite is true - suddenly the state is falling apart, the government's rating is falling, doubts are beginning, internal squabbles are beginning, this is again a sad statement for the Bulgarian nation. We have probably not finished the national project properly. who we are, "said the professor.

For his part, political scientist Daniel Smilov pointed out that there was a certain amount of carelessness in the actions of the Interior Ministry and the Kiril Petkov-Boyko Rashkov tandem regarding Borisov's arrest. "In just 24 hours, a lot of procedural and procedural errors were accumulated. Menda Stoyanova was first declared arrested, and then it turned out that this was not the case. It was announced that the European Prosecutor's Office was working on the issue, then it turned out to be incorrect. This has overshadowed the competence of the authorities and the design of the whole operation in general, and it seems to me that all these procedural defects cannot hide one fact - that with regard to this scandal in particular, the gambling scandal and the tax bonus "Vasil Bozhkov has received, this scandal is very serious and he casts a very heavy shadow on the previous government and personally on Borissov."

 

According to him, there are indisputable facts. "It has already been established that the treasury has lost over BGN 550 million, for which the person directly responsible for this situation - the Minister of Finance Vladislav Goranov - is not being held accountable. "Besides, there were many meetings and communications between Vasil Bozhkov on the one hand and Borisov, Goranov and Borisov's media adviser Sevdelina Arnaudova on the other," Daniel Smilov added.

Lawyer Velislav Velichkov commented that the surprise was great for the whole Bulgarian society, "simply because such a thing has never happened in Bulgaria". According to him, Bulgaria is the most corrupt country in the EU, and "we have always been like that, but in our country, such actions, accusations against prime ministers, even former ones, have not happened."

 

He said the first thing he thought about after learning about what was happening around Borisov was why there was talk of detention, given that at the time Borisov had not been detained but was being searched.