Analysis
EU Values Foresight
Society
Viktor Orbán’s New Assault on Free Media and Civil Society
23 November 2023
It has been a long journey; perhaps not on a relative time-measuring scale, but more on a psychological, social and political one.
While it feels like ages, it took a little over a year to bring completely down the GERB-led government that ruled Bulgaria for the better part of the last 12 years. The recent parliamentary and presidential elections, which heralded a new winner and were the second in a row, lost by the all-powerful Boyko Borisov, promise to lead the country out of the political deadlock and finally on the path to a government, unburdened by corruption and shady figures.
The new ‘We Continue the Change’ party, led by two Harvard-educated businessmen, managed to win the vote of a diverse group of Bulgarians, united by their desire to free the country from the choking hold of GERB.
This is a dazzling, yet challenging promise.