It is becoming increasingly apparent that the leadership has decided to change course politically, away from "governing in accordance with law" and back to a more totalitarian system.
Her request, which somehow doesn't sound as optional as their speaker suggests, calls back to the totalitarian government of 1984 that taught citizens to report on their neighbors.
Even so, nationalisation of the power distributors, which is advocated by the socialist opposition and by the far-right Ataka party, seems to be a step too far even for Mr Borisov .Nationalisation is pure madness – this would mean going back to totalitarian times", says Ivan Hinovski, boss of the Bulgarian Energy Forum, a NGO.
We could quickly move to a totalitarian type of government.
Unrepentant, Mr. Paumer described the killings as a justifiable response to a totalitarian regime.
The Conservatives, meanwhile, are "quite close to a totalitarian attitude", he says.
They are as close to a totalitarian government as a corporation can get.
It can be tempted, in places, to turn back to old imperialistic and totalitarian solutions.
To enhance the sense of persecution, she stood in front of the photograph of Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima and said that if they could "beat back a totalitarian aggressor," then present-day Americans too could "proclaim liberty".
His sweep was global, his narrative reached back centuries, and he almost seemed to welcome a totalitarian future.
