This request by the President is unconstitutional. The President made his statement on May 9th without any motives. Obviously, the motives were written in a hurry and were more of a newspaper publication than serious legal arguments. The President's request does not take into account the fact that Bulgaria had already made a decision to join the eurozone 20 years ago and now only the date needs to be determined, and it cannot be the subject of a referendum. This was stated by Denitsa Sacheva from GERB-SDF in the program “More from the Day” on BNT.
Why did the President decide to throw this “Molotov” cocktail on May 9th is a question to which he owes an answer to the entire Bulgarian society. Arguments that he wanted to ask the people are futile, because he is a second-term president and could have initiated such a referendum. In this case, it is not a question of asking the people, but of diverting the country from its European development, she believes.
We are not afraid of the people's answer. The people have given their answer clearly over the past four years, in which they have elected parties seven times that promise a European future for Bulgaria. Rather, the question is whether the president is afraid of the government being stable, because his actions clearly show a desire to destabilize the government. His statement once again shows that he is trying to divide the government. The Speaker of the National Assembly Natalia Kiselova is the choice of the majority. Attempts to oppose her, as a person who has no will of his own, are another unsuccessful attempt by the president to show that the government is hindering him, Sacheva pointed out.
It is important to say that there is no party or institution in Bulgaria that wants to ask Bulgarian citizens whether they want us to join the eurozone. All those who try to speculate on people's various fears are actually only playing with the date. Bulgaria decided to be part of the eurozone when it signed the EU accession treaty. Every day, Bulgarian citizens choose the euro because the euro is the second most used currency in the world. The debate is not for or against the euro, but with the date, she specified.
We are not tricking the president, but showing him his untenable initiative, Denitsa Sacheva emphasized. She asked how the president has reduced people's fears.