site.btaConstitutional Court Rejects Challenge to PM's, Cabinet's Election

Bulgaria's Constitutional Court has dismissed a petition by 49 MPs challenging the constitutionality of a January 16, 2025 National Assembly resolution electing Rosen Zhelyazkov as Prime Minister and the structure and name list of his Cabinet, according to a statement published on the Court's website on Friday.

All constitutional judges participated in the session. The decision was adopted unanimously. The rapporteur in the case was judge Desislava Atanasova.

On October 3, 2025, Velichie submitted two constitutional complaints, including one challenging the legitimacy of the election of the Rosen Zhelyazkov Cabinet. The parliamentary group argued that the Constitutional Court had ruled that eight MPs who voted that government into office had been elected unlawfully, had removed them from the National Assembly, and had replaced them with others. "Illegal elections that produced an illegal parliament, which in turn produced an illegal government, were harming the country - everyone in the State was being replaced, which was tantamount to a coup," Velichie leader Ivelin Mihaylov commented back then. Now their complaint has been rejected. 

In its reasoning, the Constitutional Court stated that its decisions on disputes regarding the legitimacy of the election of a member of Parliament take effect from the date they are issued, prior to their promulgation, and operate ex nunc to ensure the validity of acts adopted by the National Assembly and to preserve the legal consequences that have arisen from them.