Opinion piece by Alexandra Sarieva (9th)
The protests in Bulgaria, caused by … wait a minute. Actually the reasons why each person participates in them are different, but they are all fighting against one thing — the government.
Some of the people are there to support the БСП [Bulgarian Socialist Party]– they have found an opportunity and joined the protest as that will help them take down ГЕРБ [GERB], whom they oppose.
Others claim that they are totally against the government as it “wasn’t controlling the others or supervising them to see whether they were wearing masks.” Well, I could have agreed with this statement, and taken it seriously, if it wasn’t for the fact that people who were chanting that weren’t wearing their own masks.
The protest is not uniting us — actually it’s quite the contrary — it has disunited us, because after the protests, even if the people there seem to be united, they will fight against each other as the result won’t be what the other half of them wanted it to be.
We can say that particularly the COVID-19 tension is one of the reasons as it makes people anxious and very angry. So, I neither support the protestors, nor do I say that I am against them, but the only thing that I fight for is for us to be united for real.