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“Whether there will be deployment of foreign military forces on the territory of Bulgaria must be clarified by Todor Tagarev himself when he returns.” Dimitar Stoyanov – secretary of the president for defense and security and former acting military minister – told BNT.
“This topic has not been discussed with the Prime Minister, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, nor has it been discussed in the National Defense Committee,” Stoyanov pointed out.
According to him, Tagarev wanted to visit the USA as early as October, but there was a mandatory condition to sign the contract for the Stryker combat vehicles. However, the document was signed later, and accordingly his visit was moved.
Stoyanov defined Todor Tagarev’s words about Bulgaria’s possible participation in the operation against the Houthis in the Red Sea as thoughtless.
“Such thoughtless words put Bulgarians in an extremely difficult situation, trapped on a ship, and we must very carefully comment on how and where we will participate and whether we have a mandate to say these things,” said Stoyanov.
The procedure for the rotation will go according to the Constitution and before handing over the mandate, the president will hold consultations with all parliamentary groups – this is how Dimitar Stoyanov answered the question of whether Rumen Radev intends to sabotage the change of power.
“The President will do it as required by the Constitution and will not give the assembly a reason to attack him in such a way for violating the Constitution,” Stoyanov pointed out.
President Radev does not wage wars with anyone – his role is to protect the rights and interests of the ordinary Bulgarian citizen, to protect national symbols and history, Stoyanov is categorical.
“He speaks with facts and where he has to criticize the so-called assembly, he criticizes it. Prime Minister Denkov probably does not like this, but this is not a problem for the president,” Stoyanov pointed out.
He defined the partial acceptance into Schengen and the acceptance of additional conditions by Bulgaria as an absolute failure.
“Back in 2011, Bulgaria had covered the technical criteria for Schengen, suddenly now new requirements appeared and Bulgaria squatted before them, only for the government to hang the badge of success from our acceptance into the so-called “semi-Schengen”, commented Stoyanov .
The changes to the Constitution were adopted by the National Assembly with the fewest lawyers and with only 8% approval from the Bulgarian citizens, the former acting minister also said.
“Name me one prominent constitutionalist – we exclude the prominent ones Mr. Peevski, Mr. Petkov and Mr. Borisov, who accepted the changes so quickly and without public discussion,” said Stoyanov.
The statement that the president attacked the changes in the Constitution because of his powers is also not true.
“Out of 21 paragraphs, he attacked 8, of which only one concerns the official government. (…) He attacked the changes because of some ambiguous and at times contradictory norms,” said Dimitar Stoyanov.
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