Since winning power in April, the ruling Progressive Bulgaria party has proved more regressive than progressive, its first moves more in step with Russia and the Orthodox Church than with Brussels.
Svetoslav Todorov
Between his support for a Sofia Pride counter-protest to his opposition to new European sanctions targeting the Russian Orthodox Church, Prime Minister Rumen Radev is testing the definition of ‘progressive’ in the title of his party.
As president for a decade, Radev was a political chameleon, a bit slippery on the big issues of the day. In April, his newly formed Progressive Bulgaria party won power in an electoral landslide, but its early moves are looking more conservative and pro-Russian than progressive.
Earlier this month, the party came out in support of a March of the Family, a ‘Christian’, ‘patriotic’, ‘family-oriented’ counter-protest to Sofia’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride march scheduled for the same day.
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