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I would like to emphasize that international policy did not affect particularly the election result in this case. It was clear from the election debates. Although what the United States does or does not do in the foreign policy affects the future of the planet, the Americans did not vote on the basis of this criterion. So, we see that the majority of European countries, including Greece and Bulgaria and others like Russia, China, etc. have preferred Obama and an America that will not conduct unilateral interventions in the international status quo, which means an America that will not be like the America it was during the mandates of George Bush Junior. He dragged the United States into two gruelling, bloody, dangerous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that were very costly to the pocket of Americans as well. The people who voted for this reason believe that Obama is pulling the United States out of these two wars and the probability of him starting a new one in the Middle East, i.e. Iran, is small.

What was the reason for the fact that the Republicans lost for the second time, irrespective of the candidate?

This happens in elections. The candidate who has been president is usually re-elected. The case of Jimmy Carter, who lost the elections in 1976 and thus, his second consecutive term, is rather an exception. After the eight years of George Bush Junior, the eight years of the Democrat Obama follow. I think that the Republican candidate will win the next election in 2016.

Does this mean that even if the Republican Party had proposed a candidate of more charismatic personality he would not be able to win?

Elections in the United States are actually won by candidates who represent the centrist space. Therefore, there is consistency in both domestic and foreign policies, regardless of which party is in power. As we saw, Romney chose for a candidate for vice president a young and very charismatic person - Paul Ryan. But I think that if he was a candidate for the presidency he would have lost with an even wider margin. This is because if the candidate does not represent at least part of the centrist space he cannot win. This happened during many other election races - Barry Goldwater on the one hand, who had lost very early, and George McGovern, on the other. He was accused of leftist views too strong for the American perceptions. So, I think that the result of Romney is not so poor for the Republicans.

Which party do you think expresses the economically and politically conservative people in the United States?

I think it is more the Republican Party. But if you look at the financing of the two candidates, Obama’s was much greater than that of Romney. So, the theory that there are circles, bankers, Zionists and conspiracy stories in general cannot convince me for such a complex and pluralistic country.

The question was related to the circle of people who had supported the election of George Bush Junior, who, however, disappeared after the emergence of the "Tea Party."

Yes, they were the so-called Neoliberals. The "Tea Party" is about an America that deals with its own affairs. While Neoliberals, like Paul Wolfowitz, almost entirely influenced the foreign policy of the United States. It was a policy of unilateralism, whereby America in its full capacity should dominate over the world, decide alone and use military force to introduce the American interests. This mentality lost in the United States after the two tragic wars I previously mentioned. This is a kind of a new "Vietnam syndrome," if you will, that is affecting and will be affecting the country even more. The call is, "Enough already. We can do it ourselves." An increasing number of people say that America should cooperate with other members of the G20, avoid war, limit the effects of climate change and avoid a nuclear war that would eventually destroy humanity. This is about globalization in the most positive sense. It is about a "global village" in which you cannot be alone. And I am especially glad that both Greece and Bulgaria are members of a union of democratic states - the European Union.