New Bulgarian Coalition Can Bring the Country Out of Its Democratic Rut

With the Old Regime Gone, the Revolutionary Dust Settles Down

9 December 2021

Spasimir Domaradzki

Visegrad Insight Fellow

Within the tedious democratic process, the Bulgarians now look forward to a newly legitimised government.

With Rumen Radev’s win in the Presidential elections, the long election year for Bulgarians came to an end. The lengthy and uneasy process of the anti-Borisov peaceful revolution took two parliamentary and one presidential race to resolve.

The past two years will constitute an interesting case study for scholars of political systems, democracy, constitutionalism and social anthropologists, and there are several phenomena worth acknowledging.

Against The Old

The end of Borisov’s decade long rule started with mass protests that turned not only against the three-time Bulgarian Prime Minister but also against political elites. Those who were associated with corruption, the draining of state and EU funds, and who steered justice as well as organised crime.

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Spasimir Domaradzki

Visegrad Insight Fellow

Visegrad Insight Fellow. Researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Lazarski University in Warsaw.

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