The time for holding a referendum on the euro has passed irrevocably the moment Bulgaria's accession treaty with the EU came into force.
This was stated to the Bulgarian National Radio by constitutionalist Assoc. Prof. Borislav Tsekov, founder and chairman of the Board of the Institute for Modern Politics and owner of the sociological agency "Gallup International Balkan" and stressed that the introduction of the euro is a mandatory stage of our European integration, and Bulgaria has joined all stages of this integration into the EU with an international treaty, there is no specific date, but it is relatively determined - when the state meets the convergence conditions and this is ascertained according to the procedure established in the treaty, and after that our country can no longer unilaterally, including through a referendum, change these already ratified, promulgated and effective conditions and procedure by which Bulgaria joins the eurozone.
"20 years later (the accession treaty was ratified in 2025), at 12 to 1, President Rumen Radev decided to turn back the clock of history. This is frivolous", he commented and pointed out that in the EU countries where a referendum was held, this happened before the signing of their accession treaties, and in the older member states - before proceeding to these new stages of the EU's development.
"The president's request to declare null and void the order by which the Speaker of the National Assembly rejected his proposal for a national referendum is completely unfounded and inadmissible. This is what the Constitutional Court's decision says, and this is so because this act of the Speaker of the Parliament cannot be and is not subject to constitutional control. That is, the Constitution excludes these acts from the scope of the Constitutional Court's competences and therefore it was completely pointless to ask Rumen Radev for such a thing, but obviously other understandings and other arguments have prevailed", explained Assoc. Prof. Tsekov.
There was an extremely broad national consensus in the National Assembly, which ratified the treaty for Bulgaria's accession to the EU, he emphasized and added that at the time he was a deputy from the NMSV: "The treaty was ratified in 2005 with 231 votes "for" out of 234 deputies who voted. The same National Assembly was elected with 67% voter turnout - almost 4 million voters. This is a very broad legitimacy. And then there was no one to put forward a request for a referendum, and then it was time".
Borislav Tsekov also commented on the tension between US President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk with the expression "Every frog knows its own way": "Musk obviously has some type of political ambition, but he has no knowledge of politics, because it is neither a corporation nor corporate governance. He didn't understand where he stood in the power hierarchy around Trump. ... He was trying to act like a parallel president. ... With the ugly attack, he excluded himself from politics. ... We see that he chose the path of turning his back, for now.