The Constitutional Court (CC) has opened a case at the request of President Rumen Radev, after Parliament Speaker Natalia Kiselova refused to allow his request for a referendum on the introduction of the euro in 2026 to be discussed in the National Assembly.
"We do not expect anything positive from the CC. It has been proven to be unconstitutional and anti-constitutional. There are a series of decisions that the CC does not comply with. Currently, the CC must decide within a few days whether to allow the case to be considered", commented the MP from "Vazrazhdane" Tsoncho Ganev on the show "Denyat ON AIR".
In his words, what the president has done is almost two years late.
"When we collected 604,000 signatures, when this thing entered the parliament, we told the president that he had the authority to do what we are seeing right now. He refused. The fact is that at the moment we have a request from him. Better late than never", Ganev told Bulgaria ON AIR.
"Vazrazhdane" is preparing a protest on Saturday
"What will happen at the protest depends on the people who will come. At the moment we have all the indications that we will be forced into the Eurozone with false data, at the same time nothing has been lost in terms of steps that are about to happen. The report itself does not decide anything. Then we have a series of steps that need to happen. What we have as a situation now depends entirely on the Bulgarian people. We expect that there will be tens of thousands of Bulgarians in Sofia who will defend their, national interests," the MP from "Vazrazhdane" predicted.
Are there enough funds in the state
"There is enough money, as long as it is not spent in a way that does not provide anything as added value. This whole thing is a matter of priorities in the state. What we have as an absurdity in the state, its name alone sounds enough to describe the whole situation - mandatory voluntary pension insurance, which goes to private pension funds. "Several billions every year, instead of going to pension insurance and pensions in Bulgaria, go to private pension funds," Ganev is categorical.
According to him, some of the regulators have people in their ranks "who are simply there to employ them at the end of their professional careers, while others are simply there to be another trick to redirect certain businesses into properly accounting for certain funds."