The President will veto changes to the Preschool and School Education Act, according to Atty. . Denitsa Ljubenova – director of the legal program of the organization "Action".
Yesterday, non-governmental organizations submitted such a request to the presidency, and the collected signatures in support of the initiative are over 7,000. The reason for this is the legal changes adopted in the National Assembly, which prohibited topics related to the LGBT community from being discussed in school .
"At the moment, every politician in Bulgaria, more or less, plays with populism, falls into extreme views, pursues extreme goals, evident from this law. However, at the moment, I think that this is one of the few legal moves available to the public to oppose the adopted law", the lawyer commented to BNR.
According to her, this is not an attack only against LGBT people in the country: "This is an attack and a test of how far some extremely populist political parties can go with their views and actions. And to test how far we as a civil society can oppose these actions".
According to her, the reasons for the amendments do not say that the relevant propaganda has been established in the schools. We are talking about a public propaganda, said Adv. Lyubenova. And he added:
"Obviously, we are going beyond the subject that the specific law regulates. What the legislator is trying to do is facade motives, a striking discrepancy between these facade motives and what is actually their actual purpose, which is a disproportionate state intervention in the basic rights of citizens, which are realized within the framework of education. We have to leave from there.
She is categorical that this draft law contradicts the Bulgarian Constitution. According to her, the bill totally ignores the existing reality in the country:
"There is no way to ban concepts that are part of social relations. They are not subject to any regulation".
Furthermore, the law is vague enough that we can interpret everything as propaganda, added Adv. Lyubenova emphasized: "We don't know how far the limits of this law go.