Commentary by the popular writer, screenwriter, playwright and TV presenter Ivo Siromahov. He was awarded the "Award for Debut in the Arts" in 1995 and is the host of "Slavi's Show" on TV 7/8. Recently, his latest book "Bai Tosho" was published, which enjoys great readers' interest.

In the woods, they decided to form a government. Not that they needed it, then with these governments they picked only troubles, but still decided to imitate some democracy.

The most active in the negotiations for government was the wolf. He was originally a wolf-mutt, which once guarded the big wolves and rose along them in his career – he got power, ate many forest animals and even had a young she-wolf in Barcelona.

So the wolf called the sheep and said to her:

- Let's get a government with you. On a rotational basis. You will rule for nine months, then I will rule for nine months.

- How am I going to make a government with you, Wolf? "The sheep trembled. - You're gonna eat me.

- I won't eat you.

- But do you promise?

-Promise.

- Swear by mother and father.

"I swear by mother and father," said the wolf, and made the sign of the cross because he was pious. "I'll give you all the power and you'll do whatever you want for nine months.

"Oh, it sounds very nice to me," the sheep rejoiced and looked at him with her most grateful sheep's look. She already imagined how she bathed in power and splendor and cringe reporters rushed around her. "But how do we explain to the other sheep that we are no longer enemies, but partners?

- Well, there's nothing to explain to them! "The wolf cut off," the wolf cut off, "They are simple. I've been running them for 12 years and all my tricks have passed. They are so lost that they would never hold their government to account. Mostly swear at us on social networks and threaten.

"Oh, talk to me, talk to me..." the sheep looked with pleasure. "But the other sheep will still ask me why I entered into an alliance with you. I have to tell them something.

Tell them we're making this government to protect the forest from our common enemy.

Who is our common enemy?

- We'll figure out some kind of enemy. Let's say the donkey.

- The donkey? "The sheep giggled." What kind of enemy could this be? He's hollow as the sword hollow in the spring. I've even done ala-bala with him. The donkey is the enemy! Hahaha.

"Well, whatever our government is, so are our enemies," the wolf concluded wisely.

They hugged the sheep and called the other sheep to bleat in front of the donkey's barn and call it "house". The donkey was not impressed, but continued to live quietly. The sheep bleated, swaddled before the barn, and went away.

And so the wolf and the sheep formed a rotating government. The wolf continued to derail through the woods, and the sheep pretended not to notice in order to preserve the coalition peace and the gentlemen's agreement.

The relationship between the two was great. The wolf taught the sheep to eat meat. At first she pulled, but then she started eating meat regularly. She enjoyed the lamb the most. The wolf often stole a lamb from the crib, and he and his sheep held a feast. As they gnawed the bones of the lamb, they remembered how years ago they were enemies and laughed.

But the sheep did not last nine months in power. One day the wolf was not happy and ate it.

And his skin was given to the donkey as a sign of respect between the institutions.

Then you took another sheep for the government.

On a rotational basis.

(This tale is fictional. Any recognition of real events or personalities would be a figment of guilty imagination.)

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Ivo Siromahov