Successful politics is social and just. Vice President Iliana Yotova said this at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the “Friedrich Ebert” Foundation – Bureau Bulgaria, the press office of the presidency announced.
There is a great temptation in Bulgaria, and in Europe, to do politics without values. Some will say that they are old fashioned, who needs them when you have a wonderful symbiosis between money, power and pressure and you easily fulfill your goals. But whoever makes politics without values has no real supporters, but people who are with him out of fear and profit. And those who profess values, can lead people after them, know that more important than power is politics for people.
“For 30 years, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation has been working for values and with value concepts. It has succeeded in building a whole generation of people who are trying to build an environment in which interests do not come first. We want a more predictable and intelligent environment that encourages people to be creative, in which words like justice, fighting inequalities really matter,” Yotova pointed out in her welcome. She thanked the foundation’s team in Bulgaria for the joint activity over the years and highlighted its numerous initiatives. “Through its activities, the foundation shows how important it is for people to be politically literate, although today many think they are born politicians,” said the vice president. She emphasized the foundation’s attention to young people and its useful research on their profile, expectations and aspirations “You are strong, look for like-minded people and change what you don’t like – this is the important message you are sending to young Bulgarians,” Iliana Yotova pointed out.
“100 years ago, the then German president Friedrich Ebert said that there can be no freedom without democracy and democracy without freedom, and violence is always reactionary, no matter who uses it. 100 years later, we have the same problem – to fight for democracy and not open the doors to injustice and violence,” said the vice president.