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The evidence, which the public opinion hears and reads, testifies to the fact that the Bulgarian parliamentarians fail to perform their major function of law-makers in the name of the common good to a sufficiently high standard. What their functioning rather reveals are personal, family, and corporate interests, despite the pressure exerted by the European Union demanding stronger judicial control with respect to corrupt politicians. Since the very beginning of the country’s transition, the pressure on the judicial system has been enormous, both on the part of organized crime and on the part of corrupt groupings belonging to the political class. To date, it is under this pressure that the judicial system finds it hard to stay both its independence and effectiveness in the capacity of a guardian of civic interests. In an economic system where the idea of social justice has been undermined, the formation of a democratic political culture is belated and what is created instead is an environment nourishing anti-democratic orientations and political practices. A universal phenomenon afflicting all Bulgarian political parties is the lack of internal party democracy, or where it is present, it is nonetheless exceptionally weak. However regrettable this state of affairs can be, it should be admitted that it is this phenomenon precisely that generates authoritarian conduct and action.

Publikationen der Stiftung → Challenges facing the consolidation of democracy in Bulgaria
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