When someone submits an invalid document to an institution, it returns it because it is initially invalid.
This opinion was expressed to the Bulgarian National Radio by lawyer Nikolay Hadzhigenov from "We are coming" in connection with the decision of the Constitutional Court (CC) on the decision of the Speaker of Parliament to return the president's request to hold a referendum on Bulgaria's entry into the eurozone in 2026.
"Rumen Radev's idea for a referendum is actually what I politely call "dictatorship of the proletariat". Or as Slavi Trifonov said years ago that if the sovereign says to wear green pants, we will all wear green pants. But this is not democracy", he pointed out.
Hadzhigenov emphasized that the president's claim that referendums on the euro were held in the EU was false:
"He allowed himself to lie yesterday, it's not his first time, but yesterday it was very brutal that referendums on the euro were held in the EU. It's not true! This remark of his caused outrage in the EU itself. This is simply a blatant lie! When you lie on the yellow cobblestones, you can get a meter, but when you lie in front of CNN, you can't get a meter".
According to his words in this interview for the American television channel, Rumen Radev "is quite deliberately making references and not hiding his admiration for tyrants like Trump and Putin, because he himself would like to be one. ... His idea of governance is "Whatever I say - that's what happens", but this is not democracy, no matter how much he claims that this is democracy, it is exactly the opposite".
According to the lawyer, there is a very glaring contradiction in Radev's interview with CNN:
"He claims that he was old-fashioned because he liked democracy, but in the next sentence he says that we must come to terms with the fact that in 2025 someone can conquer a foreign country by force (Russia's aggression in Ukraine - editor's note).
Boyko Borisov, Delyan Peevski and Rumen Radev want the same thing, believes Hadzhigenov, adding that "the president no longer hides that he is Russian, unlike the other two, who were Russian until that day and are now Euro-Atlantic".