Delegitimisation of the Bulgarian Parliamentary System: A Local Political Crisis in Times When the World is changing its Economic Paradigm

Abstract

The impossibility of forming a stable parliamentary majority in the last two years in Bulgaria adds additional weight to the arguments of various organizations supporting the idea of changing the form of government to a presidential republic. While the quality of the debate in the parliamentary process tends to follow a downward gradation, the presidential institution maintains a consistently high public approval. Meanwhile the official governments issued by the Presidential institution are characterized by a fundamentally different public communication from the traditionally accepted one. All this has one effect - it makes Bulgarian Parliamentary system seem not valid and not acceptable. The participation of the presidential institution in stimulating this process is indisputable. In the present paper will be analysed the process and reasons for the delegitimisation of the Bulgarian parliamentary system in the light of the current political crisis and the beginning of changing the main political and economic paradigm in the world.