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President Radev contests amendments to the Constitution before the constitutional judges

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President Rumen Radev has referred to the Constitutional Court the recent amendments to the Bulgarian Constitution adopted by the Parliament on December 20. He contested the amendments changing the formation of a caretaker government. He disagrees with the possibility of Bulgarians with dual citizenship being elected as MPs and ministers. 

Radev also rejects the mechanism for terminating the work of the parliament with an expired mandate. 

The new procedure for appointing the chairpersons of the supreme courts and the chief prosecutor, without the issuance of a presidential decree for them, is also contested.


The President believes that some of the amendments, apart from containing contradictions with other constitutional provisions, change the balance between the main state bodies and the mutual control between them, directly affecting the form of state government and are within the exclusive competence of the Grand National Assembly.

There is nothing wrong with referring the matter to the Constitutional Court, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov commented, after the President announced that his first action in 2024 would be to contest the amendments before the constitutional magistrates.



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