After a legislative marathon, the MPs decided that they would change only one thing in the electoral rules by which we will vote in the upcoming early vote. At the idea of \u200b\u200b“Vazrazhdane“ The parliament went back years and again limited the number of sections that can be opened in countries outside the European Union, except for those in diplomatic and consular missions.
And if from 2016 to 2020 the limit was up to 35 sections, now it will be 20. Our compatriots in Turkey, Great Britain, and the USA will be most affected.
Why did the opposition define these changes as an “assault on the rights of Bulgarians“? Hasan Ademov from APS commented on the case in the program “This Saturday and Sunday“.
“From the podium during this 20-hour discussion, our representatives stated that not only will we refer the matter to the Constitutional Court, but we will also ask the President, Mrs. Yotova, to veto these texts, because in this case it is a question of the Bulgarian citizens who live in the so-called. third countries outside the EU are categorically harmed“, he said.
And he defined this act of the parliament as “a severe blow to the electoral process and the constitutional order in the country“.
“In this case, it is about limiting political and civil rights“, he concluded.
According to him, always when new elections approach, the topic of limiting the polling stations “in Turkey is put on the agenda and depending on the political situation, one or the other opinion prevails“.
“However, in this case, it is about the colleagues from “Vazrazhdane“ decided to deal a heavy blow to the democratic process by proposing these changes to limit it, but it became clear that they were in practice fulfilling a heavy political order from “DPS-New Beginning“, he said, even though the party declared “against“ and their votes in the hall showed it.
“Let's follow the course of everything that happened. “Vazrazhdane“ submitted the bill, the mandate holder GERB stated that they had promised them support for this text, “DPS-New Beginning“ ensured the quorum of the legal committee so that the procedure for considering this bill could start. Next, in the sublime moments when the quorum of the National Assembly was hanging by a thread “DPS-New Beginning“, even though they were “against“ these texts, ensured a quorum“, explained Hasan Ademov.
In his words, this means that „they are interested in passing these texts and in an unforgiving way to clear up their problems with the APS“.
„Not only is this a personal attack on us, this is a blow to the democratic process in the first place, and in the second place the most damaged are obviously the APS and the PP-DB. Because if we trace back the elections, we will see that then Bulgarian citizens voted outside the country, who voted in 719 sections, about 140 thousand citizens. A large part of them voted in the USA, Great Britain and Turkey“, he summarized.