“The Anti-Party Bias of Bulgaria’s President: A Dangerous Precedent for Democracy?”

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I am amazed at what happened today.

“because of this, it is inappropriate for me to hand you a mandate and entrust the fate of Bulgaria in the hands of the leaders of your party after the leaked records and subsequent public confessions due to the torpedoing of Bulgarian sovereignty”.

President Remen Radev behaves like a sergeant in the barracks. It could have been worse, but as one oiled prime minister said (with the same idea that Bulgaria is his), there are also “big bosses”.

I have a feeling that if Bulgaria was not a member of the Communities of Democratic Nations, the mandate would not have been handed over at all. And we would return to our recent past, in which we had a Leader and he decided everything that the Kremlin left for him to decide.

Rumen Radev stated today that “what does a Constitution mean here?”

Art. 92.

(1) The President is the head of state. He personifies the unity of the nation.

Today we saw the anti-party bias of Rumen Radev, the attempts to divide the nation, pointing in a disgusting communist way to the “enemy”.

We have heard the audacity to declare that the heads of our secret services appointed by his government (all but one graduated from the military army university) should not and cannot be removed from their posts.

To remind him that, according to the same Constitution, he is not the commander-in-chief of the secret services of Bulgaria, as he claims. They are not the army of Bulgaria, nor are they its armed forces.

Art. 100.

(1) The President is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Bulgaria is currently a parliamentary democracy – not a presidential authoritarianism!

For all my objections to GERB and its leader, and for my criticisms of PP-DB, I firmly believe that their government is a better, democratic and constitutional-legal solution than the secretly handed presidential mandate.

Will we return to our painful past, to the boot of dictatorship? It’s up to us!

(the text is authored by Grigor Lilov’s Facebook page)