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After two days of talks with one of the coalition partners, IMRO, the ruling party announced that it had gathered the 120 signatures needed to present a draft of a new constitution to parliament.
The chair of the GERB parliamentary group, Daniela Daritkova, said the missing votes outside the coalition came from the Volia group and independent lawmakers, but did not specify how many signatures had been collected. GERB and United Patriots have a total of 116 votes.
The project will be presented today and the texts agreed with the coalition partners are included in it, said Daritkova. Thus, the majority will meet the deadline set by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov two weeks ago to present the project: September 2.
At the insistence of IMRO, the text of the constitution returned the preamble to the GERB draft on the values on which the State is based, explicitly expressing its unity and imposing on it the affirmation of national values and traditions. The request to record the obligation to promote the birth rate and care for Bulgarian communities abroad is also added, as well as the definition of voting as a civic duty. The text will also include a detailed description of the state emblem.
GERB has not accepted three of IMRO’s demands:
educational qualification to vote
expanding the powers of the president
introduction of compulsory military service
The compromise solution reached by the partners is to submit these issues to a referendum, which will take place together with the elections to the Grand National Assembly.
The legislative initiative proposal of the judiciary has been removed from the text of the final version, because this element of our proposal has caused serious controversy, said Daniela Daritkova.
According to the Constitution, the project can be considered in at least two months, that is. The 2nd of November. Your discussion can last a maximum of three months. It should end with the adoption of a decision to convene a Grand National Assembly, which, however, requires a majority of 160 votes and, according to the parliamentary parties, cannot be achieved so far, since the BSP and the MRF with their 103 deputies are against, while the votes cast. for “are a maximum of 137.
Tensions over collecting the necessary signatures have risen in the past two days, after IMRO leader Krassimir Karakachanov announced that he had not been invited to a meeting of the ruling coalition council to discuss the text proposals. of his party and threatened not to do so. to deliver the 12 signatures to the deputies of your party. Yesterday, GERB made it clear that they were negotiating with IMRO and even hinted at a deal, but Karakachanov denied it and confirmed that he would not back down until his proposals were accepted. The IMRO’s decision was expected at noon today, but negotiations continued into the afternoon.
In response to a question, Daniela Daritkova made it clear that they trust the BSP and MRF to change their position. We must seek an agreement on a new public contract, and in the next two months we will hold a series of discussions to persuade opponents of the project to support it.
Daritkova categorically denied that submitting the project was a way to save time.
See the recording of the briefing in the video:
Details can be found later at www.dnevnik.bg.
