Undemocratic parties are failing all around the world…

By Solin Hacador:

Radical protests in different parts of the world are emerging. A new way of doing politics is spreading throughout the world. The worlds’ politicians seem to have difficulty in understanding and managing the situation.

It is quite interesting that these kinds of protests are functioning well without any leader or financial, material and human infrastructure.

Millions of Brazilians are on the streets to protest against corruption in their government and wanting to reform system in which people have lost faith.

Thousands of Turkish people demonstrated in Gezi Park in Istanbul, which started from Taksim Square peacefully but turned into chaos. All the youthful demonstrators grew up during the Turkish economic boom of the past decade and have not lived through the political chaos and deep economic recessions from the 1980s to the early-2000s.

Thousands of Bulgarian people demonstrated in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, against the three-week old government of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski.

It is expressed in sudden and massive urban mobilisations in which the occupation of city centres led by youths has always been a symbolic surprise to the societies. This type of protest is done to test the power of governmental systems. There is clear evidence from these protests that undemocratic systems are failing, one by one all, around the world.   It does not matter whether the regime is dictatorship or ‘democratic’ and whether the society is dominated by Christian or Islamic culture etc.

The evidence shows that people from distant parts of the world have a mutual anger and are on the streets.

The concatenation of the current protests in Turkey, Bulgaria and Brazil illuminates a phenomenon that started in 2008 in all continents and countries, leading spectacularly up to the Arab Spring of 2011 and the fall of three dictators, in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. However, the list is not over as there were also movements in Iran, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Israel, Chile, Mexico, the U.S., Russia, and the Spanish indignant.

All these social movements are shaking the received ideas and they transform the landscape of our societies. They are also the part of a transformation, affecting the whole planet, found in social networks.

For sure these young groups of people want to live in a better society with better conditions, to receive better education, etc. However, the governments mentioned above are ignorant and violent. Who knows, maybe Mr. Erdogan, the president, of Turkey, will manage to build a shopping centre in Gezi Park in order to bar people from future protests there. On the another hand, Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff will reduce transport fees and the Bulgarian government will bring in some democratic reforms.

Yet these are not the definite solution, they are miles away from democracy. It is no coincidence that these undemocratic parties have failed to produce policies that would engage popular interest. I wish that the Turkish, Bulgarian and Brazilian governments learn their lesson from the protesters and provide their public with deserved respect and services.

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