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Talking to a Bulgarian recently, he is of the opinion that nothing is moving forward in Bulgaria and people are just giving up trying to improve things. In other words I suppose its a vote of 'no confidence'. Would you agree?
Strangely enough, just recently we have been wondering this as well over things generally. In 8 years not a lot has changed. Maybe a few small things in our village but overall the country seems to be going backwards rather than forwards in the bigger scheme of things generally. We were quite surprised to hear a Bulgarian voicing our thoughts. Bulgaria is testing our hopes for her future.

In many ways no , as there isn't any work and even though food and bills have increased, peoples wages or pensions remain the same. The main roads are much better than they were years ago, especially the motorways. There is more selection of foods now large supermarkets have opened.

chrisbriggs wrote:

Willow, I realise that Bulgaria at the moment does not have a Government per se, but I was aiming my comments at MP's , anyone who purports to represent the people at any level, mayors, even the people who run the utilities. There is I believe a President, what role in the everyday life of the Bulgarian people does he have. And just to make matters worse our electricity has been off for over an hour. Also isnt it strange how you never see a poor politician?

Ray

I sympathise with your lack of electricity, but as bad as it maybe here, the electric system where we lived in Turkey was far worse. Electric cuts on a regular basis and at times 5 or 6 times a day was experienced over there.