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I want to tell you — in the first person — what happened in Parliament this morning. The day began with another declaration of "Renaissance", in which we were called with the usual epithets that are trying their best to normalize and turn into a stable couple next to our name: informants, traitors, traitors and so on. They even came to a kind of incitement to rebellion – saying that their supporters "would not allow a government to be formed with the second term" if they had to "go inside parliament" to prevent it. This is what the MP from "We continue the change Kiril Petkov and Assen Vassilev presented their political project "We continue the change" – Democratic Bulgaria "Democratic Bulgaria" is a centrist-right political union composed of" (PP-DB) Manol Peykov.

"As usual, we listened to their declaration immensely politely – parliament is therefore a parliament, so that different and sometimes strongly opposing opinions can be expressed. After the representative of "Vazrazhdane" finished her speech and sat down, colleague Yavor Bojankov came to the rostrum to read a declaration on behalf of our group – that of PP-DB. In his well-structured and brilliantly argued declaration (which he never managed to read until the end – and which from the very beginning was greeted with whining by the people of the KK), Bojankov clearly explained that one of the most favorite techniques of "Renaissance" (as well as Kremlin propaganda in general) is to accuse others of sins of which they themselves are guilty. He points out.

"Like crushing NGOs and profiting from it. Or deny vaccines after you've secretly given yourself a few doses. Or to call the other "national traitors" when you yourself receive your support directly from the Kremlin, call the Ukrainian refugees "tourists" and vow (quite openly, moreover!) to send all dissenting people to Belene. So it was in this context that Mr. Bojankov joked (I do not know how appropriate, but it is certainly not much compared to the heinous and completely unfounded slander that people "Vazrazhdane" say about us every day from the same rostrum) that, by the same logic – the logic of the technique "the thief calls hold the thief who they so skillfully possess – if they call us "soft wrists", No wonder they are like that themselves," Peykov sums up.

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"At that moment, a group of "National Revivalists" were on their feet and – as amazing as it may seem – they immediately tore up the institutional "chain" and ran to the rostrum to fight their fist with Yavor Bojankov. (Note: they were not inflamed by the finding that they were receiving orders directly from the Kremlin, but they were furious about questioning their sexual orientation!). Everything went pretty fast. After waiting at least thirty seconds for the conservators to intervene (alas, this did not happen), I and a few other colleagues rushed to protect with our bodies our colleague Bojankov, who found himself surrounded by a wild pack of stormtroopers.

(Here I want to make a short remark and confirm that yes, I have reconsidered it, and the word is exactly that – "pack".

"What you don't know because it remains hidden from the cameras is that after my notorious statement about the KK on April 26, people from his party regularly send shock companies to the back rows, where I usually sit to 'respect' me. Three or four or five people surround me and cry me: "Why aren't you combed, gley what do you look like!", "What are you so fat?", "What are these martenitsas, have you not seen a stork?", "Glasses donkey such" and other annoying childishness that most of us have outgrown in the preschool group, "the MP writes.

"In other cases where – in the middle of another slanderous statement from the rostrum – he does not restrain himself and mention one of the magic words "Mitrofanova", "Kremlin", "Putin" or "ruble" – at least ten revived deputies turn around and start shouting at me "communist!", "informer!" and similar nonsense, repeated with astonishing perseverance and complete lack of variability (which speaks either of the use of props on a list, or for a total lack of contextual imagination). As a matter of fact, in particularly dramatic moments, among their addresses to us, slightly more vivid phrases emerge: "You are children of Satan", "dirty, vile nits" and "we will all send you to Belene" (although they are recreated from memory, the quotes are quite accurate)", Manol Peykov explains.

"I have also witnessed something completely different, however: two Fridays ago, when the hall was almost empty, I managed to persuade three 'National Revivalists' to sit next to me and (to my great surprise) we were able to talk humanly, peacefully and perfectly respectfully – and for more than an hour. Let me tell you, I found themselves quite normal people – with their own personal dramas, problems, insecurities, room anger... Even at one time, listening to their arguments and arguments, I clearly realized at what point we had diverged and diverged – and that in the end things were hardly as irreparable as they seemed.)," he admits.

"So, my friends. After I rushed to defend Bojankov – I know from experience that at such a moment the very presence of a friend next to you helps – the attack sharply directed at me (apparently, the wounds of April 26 have not healed yet – and it seems that they are not going to heal anytime soon). I was greeted first with a fierce shoving, then with kicks on the ankles (like in water polo – where the cameras do not see), then with skinning on the face and punches in the abdomen (I'm fine, relax, they were not particularly strong); I won't even mention the curses and threats. (My eyes therefore met the very people with whom we spoke peacefully and humanly ten days ago, and for a moment it seemed to me that we were getting along. Now I saw a grudge in their eyes; I saw there the desire to tear. They were like zombies—the pack's instinct had taken them over entirely.)

After the Quaestors finally got out and took us out, the CC quickly regrouped and asked for a "tribunka" (an internal parliamentary format in which a parliamentary group gives an official statement to the media) – to explain (to scream, more precisely) how, you see, we have challenged them; how "such things" were "inadmissible" and how "these national traitors" were to be "immediately expelled from parliament." (Apropos, among everything else he called me and Bojankov "those with a sa t in a situation" and firmly stated that there was never again (note!) to go to the parliamentary rostrum.

That's what works for me. Then we also went to the stand and stated a position (I hope you have watched it or at least heard). But that's not what my word is about.

I would like to tell you a few things.

Tsoncho Ganev from "Vazrazhdane" spat on a fellow MP

To those who confuse our desire for decency and good tone with "lack of balls":

— We are here and we are not afraid.

To those who eternally explain how "we should not descend to their level":

Everything has its limits. There are times when you have to take a stand.

To those who are not yet sure of the true motives of "Revival":

—Read Umberno Eco and his 14 Ways to Recognize Creeping Fascism.

To those who proclaim impeachment and waiver of the immunity of this or that:

There is a time for everything. We have to choose our battles.

And finally, all of the above put together:

"To stop the rise of this brown populism, we need two things right now: a working parliament and a regular government.

I wish you courage, patience and sound reason, friends, "Peykov concludes.

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Scandal in Parliament

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