The Constitutional Court (CC) again failed to make a decision on the "house book" - the positions from which the president can choose acting prime ministers, and on the right of Bulgarians with dual citizenship to run for parliamentarians.
The Constitutional Court was referred again for these changes to the Constitution (the Sixth Amendment), after it did not make a decision during the first vote, BTA reported.
The renewed composition of the court was divided 6:3:3 and thus for the second time failed to make a decision on the "house book" and MPs with dual citizenship.
In the event that early parliamentary elections are called again, the president will be able to choose a candidate for acting prime minister from among: the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Governor or Deputy Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, the Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson of the Court of Accounts and the Ombudsman or his deputy.
Also, from now on, Bulgarians with dual citizenship will be able to run for MPs.
The second case against the two texts in the new Constitution was initiated at the request of MPs in the 51st National Assembly and President Rumen Radev.
All 12 judges of the Constitutional Court participated in the hearing.
Borislav Belazelkov, Galina Toneva and Orlin Kolev maintain an opinion that the requests are inadmissible.
Pavlina Panova, Atanas Semov, Yanaki Stoilov, Sonya Yankulova, Sasho Penov and Nevin Feti found the requests to be well-founded, and the contested provisions to be unconstitutional.
Judges Nadezhda Dzhelepova, Krasimir Vlahov and Desislava Atanasova found the requests to be unfounded, and the contested provisions to be constitutional.