THE CASE OF IVANCHEVA AND PETROVA - INSTITUTIONAL PROPAGANDA,CIVIL CRISIS COMMUNICATION AND ETHICAL PUBLIC RELATIONS
THE CASE OF IVANCHEVA AND PETROVA - INSTITUTIONAL PROPAGANDA,CIVIL CRISIS COMMUNICATION AND ETHICAL PUBLIC RELATIONS

Author(s): Petar Kardzbilov
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: contrived bribery charge; information war; institutional propaganda; civil crisis communication; ethical public relations
Summary/Abstract: As practice of public communication, the case with the mayor of Mladost District of Sofia Municipality Desislava Ivancheva and her deputy mayor Bilyana Petrova is exceptional and emblematic in terms of conducting an information war between institutional propaganda and civil crisis communication. The case concerns the mayor of a metropolitan area and her deputy, who in 2016 were elected with a huge lead over the candidate of the ruling party in Bulgaria with the main promise to stop the huge overbuilding in the area. Mayor Ivancheva kept her promise, revealed numerous frauds in Mladost properties and a year and a half after the election, together with her deputy, she was spectacularly arrested with € 56,000 found on the rear seat of their car. The question of how this money got there is at least highly controversial. The testimonies of the main prosecution witnesses are also very contradictory. The information war for the truth on the part of the public relations practitioner as a crisis communications expert is extremely difficult in a public arena with heavily dependent media environment.

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