The Constitutional Court has opened a case at the request of 49 MPs questioning the constitutionality of a National Assembly resolution that rejects the holding of a national referendum on the euro changeover, the Court said Monday. The proposed referendum sought to ask Bulgarians if they would back a delay of the changeover until 2043.
The exact question was: "Do you agree that the Bulgarian lev should be the only official currency in Bulgaria until 2043?" Bulgaria hopes to join the eurozone at the start of 2025.
A steering committee where Vazrazhdane played a key role, collected more than the 400,000 votes in a petition backing the proposal, thus making the referendum imminent, but Parliament rejected it earlier in July, arguing that the wording of the question was unconstitutional. Vazrazhdane took the matter to the Constitutional Court with the support of the There Is Such a People parliamentary group and independent MP Radostin Vassilev.
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