On How Populism in Bulgaria Is Different | 43 comments (43 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Simeon (none / 1)

I like Simeon. I wish the remaining reigning families had the guts to put together Monarchist parties and run for President intheir respective republics.

He headed a government, composed mainly of technocrats, who had gained education and work experience in the Western societies. He neither had a political platform, nor needed one. Simeon always avoided political confrontations, never gave clear messages to the people and to the media and became famous with the phrase: "I will tell you when the time comes." Apparently, the time never came for him to tell us anything.

Perfect, just perfect for a figurehead President. It wouldn't work in Russia, France, or the US, but it would elsewhere, including in Bulgaria.

This is tongue-in-cheek, but only to a point.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 04:52:30 AM EST

Re: Simeon (none / 1)

But he didn't run to be figurehead president, he was PM.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:13:10 AM EST
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Re: Simeon (none / 0)

I know, and I agree with the diarist that his approach was not the best for the job.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:21:01 AM EST
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Re: Simeon (none / 0)

</nitpick overdrive> OK.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:26:11 AM EST
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Re: Simeon (none / 1)

I don't like the thought of him being a president, to me a monarch becoming a president is even more weird than him being the PM. But I must agree that he would have been just perfect for figurehead President. Now it is too late though.

I can resist anything but temptation.- Oscar Wilde

by Little L (ljolito (at) gmail (dot) com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:32:05 AM EST
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Re: Simeon (none / 0)

I actually find it an amusing thought [must be that, like most Spaniards, I am a JuanCarlist republican], especially with term limits. After 8 years as President, the "King" would have to retire as an "elder statesman" and make room for his wife, siblings, cousins, children... Plus, there would be an alternance of royalist and republican presidents.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:38:33 AM EST
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Re: Simeon (none / 0)

...which is going to make the mess even bigger as it is right now:).

I can resist anything but temptation.- Oscar Wilde

by Little L (ljolito (at) gmail (dot) com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:41:49 AM EST
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Re: Simeon (none / 0)

While the royalist party is busy figuring out who to line up behind, the republican candidates can sweep the elections. What's the problem with that?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:43:00 AM EST
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Re: Simeon (none / 0)

We don't really have a royalist party, or if we have some, it is not in the Parliament for sure. The fact that we have a party, which is named after the royal, does not make it royalist at all.

I can resist anything but temptation.- Oscar Wilde

by Little L (ljolito (at) gmail (dot) com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:47:17 AM EST
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Re: Simeon (none / 1)

He's not a monarch, he's a royal. A monarch is someone who rules as king, and he wouldn't.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 28th, 2006 at 08:41:13 AM EST
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On How Populism in Bulgaria Is Different | 43 comments (43 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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