We are heading into uncharted waters constitutionally, as under the amendments adopted in late 2023, parliament shall no longer be dissolved and the president no longer has free choice of caretaker PMs and ministers. Instead, the caretaker PM needs to be selected from a very short list of public officials - who at present are almost all GERB appointees - and then the PM-designate will select his or her own choice of ministers.
Given the general tomfoolery, it is not impossible that all the officials on the list will decline to serve, in which case nobody has the faintest clue what is supposed to happen. However, chances are that one of the GERB-ers will in fact be appointed. The other potential issue is that DPS would very much like the two elections to be held on separate dates - their constituents in Turkey are not allowed to vote in the Euro elections and, given that they have extensive 'donor vote' systems in place, a 2-in-1 election can throw a wrench in their machine. Given the number of witting and unwitting helpers DPS has, it is possible that the parliamentary election is held on either 02 June or 16 June, taxpayers be damned.
It's rather satisfying (not to mention funny) to see PP-DB's inane constitutional reform rebound back on them...
* having 3 March as the biggest national holiday is seen by some as a servile sop to Russia, as this is the date of the
Russo-Ottoman armistice which brought about the liberation of Bulgaria, but:
- had absolutely no input by Bulgarians in its contents and little in the war which brought it about
- never actually produced any effect
Both of these arguments are wrong, but more importantly they even miss the point of Bulgaria's national holiday. The idea was never to venerate a failed treaty (except indirectly as a symbol of Bulgaria's ideal borders) but rather to recognize it as the dividing line between a centuries long foreign oppression and a liberated Bulgaria. In that sense, the 3rd of March is just as much a commemoration of the war that preceded the treaty and which is the only reason Bulgaria exists today (and a war in which Bulgarian volunteers certainly played an important role, contrary to argument one). It's why the attempt to change the national holiday is (and likely will remain) a fringe movement and why far more people consider this attempt little more than trying to adapt to the current anti-Russian politically correct position.
