For the first time in this mandate, the parliament complied with the veto of President Rumen Radev. The MPs did not re-accept the changes in the NPC, which the head of state sent back for a new discussion. With them, the plenum of the SJC was actually restored, which had previously been canceled with the changes to the Constitution. For the re-adoption of the amendments, one deputy voted “for”, 51 were “against”, 134 – “abstained”. During the debate, there were only speeches from the opposition.
The President vetoed the amendments to the National Civil Code adopted by the Parliament on February 1. With them, in practice, the National Assembly returned the plenary session of the Supreme Judicial Council, which was abolished by the amendment to the Constitution. The head of state states in his reasons that with the return of the plenary session of the SJC, de facto, the launched judicial reform is cancelled. With the changes in the basic law, the SJC was reorganized by dividing it into two separate councils – Judicial and Prosecutorial. In addition, the deputies also returned the powers of the chief prosecutor, which were curtailed again with the changes to the Constitution.
The ruling coalition announced that they will look for better ways to eliminate the flaws in the texts. In the debate in the plenary hall so far, Tsveta Rangelova from “Vazrazhdane” commented that
parliament must comply with the president’s veto, as the reasons for it are sound.
“You have to accept the motives of the president, whose goal with this decree is the lighter version of the remedial exam that all of you from the ruling majority, who refused to listen to the sane arguments of the “Vazrazhdane” parliamentary group, are taking,” she commented.
Grozdan Karadjov from “There is such a people” stated that the amendments to the Judiciary Act through the transitional and final provisions of the NPC should not have been considered at all.
“And what we got in the end – a wrong constitution. Why is it wrong? Well because with these changes you have proposed you are actually amending the constitution and that is the next huge problem. How and to whom did it occur to this infamous new Magnaurian school here in our government, which has reigned, to change the constitution by law. There’s an order to this thing. Why are we changing the constitution that has just been changed? Why are we renovating the renovation?” Karadjov asked.
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