site.btaVazrazhdane Demands Resignation of Parliament Leader

The nationalist Vazrazhdane party demands the resignation of Parliament leader Nataliya Kiselova after it transpired that she has dismissed as unconstitutional a proposal for a national referendum on Bulgaria's entry in the eurozone in 2026, that was submitted by President Rumen Radev a day earlier. The resignation call was published on Facebook by Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov.

Radev wanted a referendum that would ask Bulgarian people "Do you agree to have Bulgaria adopt the single European currency euro in 2026?". 

The Vazrazhdane leader argues that Kiselova violated the Constitution with her move.

MP Petar Petrov told reporters in Parliament that they would start collecting signatures in support of the motion for Kiselova's resignation on Wednesday. 

They need to secure the signatures of 80 deputies to push it through.

Also, he said that his party would submit their own proposal for a referendum on the euro changeover the very same day. 

He has already announced the plan for a referendum proposal. 

Not their first euro referendum push

In April 2023, Vazrazhdane submitted to parliament a petition bearing some 600,000 signatures for holding a referendum on keeping the lev as Bulgaria's national currency until 2043. The National Assembly defeated the motion, and the MPs took the case to the Constitutional Court, which ruled that such referendum was unconstitutional. Both the majority in Parliament and the Constitutional Court argued that it was unlawful to submit to a referendum on matters regulated by international treaties concluded by Bulgaria (in this case the treaty on Bulgaria's accession to the EU).

While the Constitutional Court was in session and even before the decision was rendered, Vazrazhdane staged an unprecedented protest in front of the building. As part of the demonstration, protesters burnt an effigy of a Constitutional Court judge, setting on fire a car on which the effigy was placed.