President offers parliament to ignore the constitution
As people who have chosen the right to their professional vocation and life path, and led by the responsibility of teaching the right to the coming generations of Bulgarian lawyers, we feel obliged to express our deep alarm and to alarm about the danger of the National Assembly, to convene a national referend. Union.
In the presence of decision №3 of 8.02.2024 on the c. No. 13/2023 of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria, the convening of such a referendum would be a violation of the Constitution. It is legally unjustified that the President of the Republic propose to the Bulgarian Parliament to ignore the constitutional regulation of the country and its obligations as a member of the European Union.
| Such an act undermines the confidence between Bulgaria and its partners in the European Union, undermines its international authority and, above all, calls into question the constitutional foundations of the Bulgarian Democratic State and the principle of rule of law – fundamental to the Bulgarian legal order. |
We have to remind you that democracy is a completed model of organization of society, public authority and law. This model guarantees a management based on the will and rights of citizens, expressed and protected in the forms established by the Constitution.
The attempt to put Parliament in a position to convene an unconstitutional referendum is an act that – consciously or not – aims to suspend the Bulgarian Constitution and the return of the country decades ago, deleting the achievements in public and legal progress after 1989.
Radev and the Special Operation « Referendum »
We urge the professional community of Bulgarian lawyers to take a definite position in defense of the rule of law and development of Bulgaria as a democratic European country, in accordance with the Constitution and international commitments of the country.
We urge the National Assembly not to violate the Constitution and not to question the place of Bulgaria in the European Union.
| We turn to Bulgarian citizens with a call for a conscious and responsible participation in one of the most fateful moments in our contemporary history and, through our active position, not to allow our country to be brought back to its development as a free, legal and democratic European country. |
Re: Referendum on the euro: Democracy and a sense of justice
1. AC. Alexander Katsarski, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
2. Prof. D.Y. Angel Kalaydzhiev, Faculty of Law of Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
3. Prof. Dr. Borislav Ganchev, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
4. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Boryana Museva, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
5. Prof. Dr. Vasil Pandov, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
6. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Velina Todorova, Faculty of Law of the Paisii Hilendarski University
7. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ventsislav Petrov, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
8. Prof. Dr. Viktor Tokushev, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
9. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deyana Marcheva, Department of Law, NBU
10. Ass. Dimitar Gochev, Faculty of Law of Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
11. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dekov, Faculty of Law of PA « Paisii Hilendarski »
12. Prof. Dr. Dimitar Stoyanov, Faculty of Law of Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
13. Prof. Dr. Dimitar Topuzov, Faculty of Law of PA « Paisii Hilendarski »
14. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eva Kaseva, Faculty of Law of VTU « St. St. Cyril and Methodius »
15. Prof.
16. Ass. Dr. Ekaterina Metodieva, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
17. Assoc. Prof. Zdravka Krasteva, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
18. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ivaylo Kostov, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
19. Prof. Dr. Ivan Stoynev, Faculty of Law of Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
20. Assistant Professor Ilian Baichev, Faculty of Law of VTU « St. Cyril and Methodius »
21. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Iskra Vladova-Nedkova, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
22. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Katerina Yocheva, Department of Law, NBU
23. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Krasimir Manov, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
24. Ass. Dr. Christian Raychev, Faculty of Law of PA « Paisii Hilendarski »
25. Lyuba Kovacheva, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
26. Assistant Professor Martin Bubarov, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
27. Assoc. Prof. Mira Manolova, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
28. Ass. Mirela Andreeva, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
29. Prof. Dr. Ralitsa Kostadinova, Department of Law, NBU
30. Assistant Professor Silvia Spasova, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
31. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Silvia Tsoneva, Department of Law, NBU
32. Assoc. Prof. Simeon Groysman, Faculty of Law at Sofia University
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34. Stoyan Madin, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
35. Prof. Hristina Tancheva, Law Faculty of Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
36. Assoc. Prof. Hristo Hristev, Faculty of Law of Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
37. Prof. Tsveta Popova, Law Faculty of Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
38. Dr. Tsvetelina Bayraktarova, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
39. Prof. Tsvetelina Dimitrova, Law Faculty of Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
40. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yulia Zaharieva, Faculty of Law at Sofia University « St. Kliment Ohridski »
