“Let’s leave the national holiday to the historians, if we have to do a poll of the people, but let’s close this topic today, it’s not the most important,” GERB leader Boyko Borisov said to Epicenter.bg. According to him, this will be defended by the deputies of his party during the debates in the hall.
“Our most important goals as a nation today are our entry into Schengen and the Eurozone, as well as the constitutional changes that affect judicial reform, not the date of the national holiday,” Borissov said in response to a question about whether there has been a change in his party’s position on regard to the Third of March.
The former prime minister and leader of the largest parliamentary party is worried that the nation is currently divided over opposition to the Third March on May 24, and therefore believes that this topic should leave the political debate and to give the floor to historians and experts.
“Even if we have to poll the people,” Borissov pointed out. When is the national holiday is not a topic that is important today, we can decide that in one or two years. Even more so the date of the national holiday can also be decided by lawBorisov specified.
During his visit to Burgas on Saturday, Borisov said that his party has been thinking about this issue for a long time and he even commented on his position with the co-chairman of the Democratic Party Hristo Ivanov, insisting that the topic of the national holiday be put on the back burner.
From Borisov’s words, it became clear that GERB will stand behind the constitutional changes in their part for judicial reform and limiting the powers of the caretaker government, but not for changing the national holiday.
The position of PP-DB remains in favor of changing the national holiday as part of the constitutional debate in the parliament, but they are ready, if there is a referendum on the subject, to listen to the voice of the people.
“The whole claim that we are attacking March 3rd is false. We are not attacking it, it will remain a holiday. We will honor the people who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of our country. But that has nothing to do with our intention let’s make May 24 a national holiday – as a day that glorifies perhaps one of the greatest achievements of the Bulgarians – let’s give education, let’s give writing and the alphabet”, said Iskren Mitev from PP-DB on NOVA NEWS.
“We have come to listen to the people. If there is a referendum on this, I will support it. And I will comply with his opinion if he manages to gather the necessary majority,” Mitev added.
When asked what was the role of Aleksey Petrov in order for the “assembly” to exist, Mitev answered: “I have nothing to do with the mafia circles in Bulgaria. Most of the people I know in “We continue the change” are also such people. And the attempt to “sew” interaction with the Mutren circles to us is very funny”.
Earlier, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov stated that continues to support the listing of May 24 as a national holiday in the Constitution. According to him, a political discussion should be held on the matter in the National Assembly and it should be part of the constitutional debate, as envisaged by the ruling majority.
Meanwhile, today politicians, public figures, journalists and athletes announced an initiative to preserve the national holiday March 3, when we celebrate the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman yoke. They express their readiness to put this issue to a national inquiry through a referendum.
Among the initiators are the president (2002-2012) Georgi Parvanov, academician Yukhnovski, professor Iskra Baeva, ex-minister Vesela Lecheva, Georgi Kadiev, professor Valeri Stefanov, associate professor Zhablyanov, MEP Petar Vitanov, boxer Tervel Pulev, doctors, journalists, public figures.
Georgi Parvanov defined the calls for a boycott of March 3, as a national holiday that marks the liberation of Bulgaria from Turkish slavery, “not as a mistake, but as a crime.”
2023-09-04 19:03:00
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