The Parliament will not consider the proposal of the Head of State Rumen Radev for a referendum on the euro, nor will it put it to a vote.
"The arguments with which the Speaker of the National Assembly refuses to submit the proposal to the President are completely sound, but the Speaker cannot perform such an action. This statement is essentially a unilateral decision of the Speaker of the National Assembly. In this case, Ms. Kiselova sacrificed correctness to the law at the expense of political loyalty. This is not a good certificate for a lawyer," said attorney Lyudmil Rangelov on "Denyat ON AIR".
According to him, political will stands above any legal considerations and this case is obviously such.
"I cannot explain what prompted the president to make this decision, because he knows that it is unconstitutional. He was hardly advised by lawyers that such a request could be approved and such a referendum held," added attorney Rangelov for Bulgaria ON AIR. At the moment, the decision to reject the president's idea seems arbitrary, the guest is categorical.
"If the Speaker of the National Assembly had submitted this even to a legal committee, within 1 day he could have very well-arguedly helped the National Assembly how to vote, and the next day, without who knows what debates, it would have ended with a decision rejecting the president's request and things would have ended legally," he explained.
According to him, it is not clear what the president's goal was with the idea of the referendum, what debates he wanted to arouse in society.