Something somewhat like that

There is a fairytale which tells a strange story about a centipede. Once upon a time, while it was walking, it pondered how it could succeed to walk with so many legs - which leg should come after the preceding one. At this very second, its legs intertwined and it fell helplessly on the ground.

Something similar is happening in the parliamentary group of the National Movement Simeon II. The MPs there know they have a lot of work to do, but before they have started it, they decided to clarify how they are going to do it. Last week, this debate was also joined by more peripheral MPs with Emil Koshlukov proving to be the most active of all.

It is interesting that the most critical are the members of the ruling majority whose ambitions for position and power remained unsatisfied. Koshlukov, for example, became head of the parliamentary committee "without portfolio" - the one on NGOs.

Alternative opinions and critiques, of course, are something useful. It can be argued though if in the event that the discontent MPs had power in the parliamentary group, the work would have proceeded more smoothly.

In fact, one of the dilemmas of the discontent is whether or not to accuse the group's managing body of lack of activity and to ask for their resignation. No coup will probably take place next week, however. In spite of that, mechanisms for the better efficiency of the group and the Parliament as a whole will be discussed. In a way, before they start to do any work, the NMSII MPs will look at it from all sides, will discuss it and, only after that, they will start to do it.

Before that though, the procedure of getting acquainted among the MPs should finish, so that the comical situation of last week - when a journalist stayed for some time at a closed parliamentary group session, without anyone recognizing that he was an outsider - will not arise again. The MPs had probably decided that this was a little known colleague of theirs.

And when the process of acquainting finishes, when the work has been discussed in principle and altogether, something reasonable can be done. Until then, the NMSII parliamentary group will look like the helpless centipede from the children's fairytale - lying on one side, full of enthusiasm, and helplessly moving its legs.

Kapital

We caught up with the Americans

The name of the first winner from the presidential elections is not Georgi Purvanov. We would like to find out the name of this character as soon as possible. This character is the one who supported the team, destined to count the election results, and caused a total chaos in all the electoral sections. And also, most probably, took a good commission for the service.

In the long run, it is so shameful to count manually. Even the Americans did it for their presidential elections. But in order to allow such a total messing up of the job, it is more than clear that this team was not prepared to tackle such a responsibility. Let us hope that even a greater mess does not come - like the presidential candidates Petar Beron and George Ganchev announcing the elections as invalid, delaying the process until Christmas. In this scenario, we can guarantee the politicians that the voting turnout will not be more than 10 per cent. Or maybe this is the objective?

24 Chassa

Does it matter who the president is?

An icy rain poured down over all of local politics - more than half of Bulgaria declined to vote.

Have we become so caught up with the Americans that we do not care who the president is? Exactly the opposite.

Another thing is even scarier though - the common candidate of the two biggest political formations, who already had a very successful term in office, is even with the candidate of a party for which not even 18 per cent voted at the June 17 parliamentary elections. Are we so advanced that on this soil will at last grow the social democracy? Rosy dreams.

The truth is more cruel. First of all, after the heavy hurling of discrediting evidences among the politicians, the only thing about which Bulgarians are not sorry for is that they studied Aleko Konstantinov at school.

Thus, they can themselves make the conclusion that for 100 years the Bulgarian politician has not changed and remember the clumsy and impertinent character of Bai Ganyo from Konstantinov's works.

And secondly, the idealistic looks directed towards Simeon Saxe-Coburg over the summer, seem to be smoldering with the advent of the winter. In direct correlation with the incoming bills for central heating.

Trud