The Right to Vote

Today Bulgarians vote for members of the EU Parliament for the first time in their history. This is only 5 months after joining the EU as the 27th member state. As a Bulgarian citizen I can vote, but I am clueless as to who is running, what parties are in the race and all the rest. There’s irony in this. When I was living in the States, I was really following US politics, people’s platforms and all the political hoopla out there. I was very much into this stuff, although as a non-US citizen I was precluded from casting a vote. I wanted to do it, but I couldn’t. Now I can easily vote, but I am gonna skip it because I am not interested. American politics is way more interesting and political figures there continue to get my attention. In Bulgaria….well, somehow every politician here seems to be tainted by past (or present) affiliations with the shadows of the communist past and the newly minted, borderline-legal, "businesses."