Parliament's Speaker Kiselova on the President's Constitutional Court Referral over the Euro Referendum: "In My View, the Court Will Partially Admit the Request

In a special interview with journalist Georgi Lyubenov, parliamentary speaker Nataliya Kiselova offered a swift and detailed response to President Rumen Radev’s referral of her decision to the Constitutional Court regarding the referendum on the adoption of the euro.

Kiselova clarified that she expects the Court to initiate a case for constitutional interpretation, but not to rule on whether her May 13 decision is null and void, as it lacks jurisdiction on that specific matter.

• President Radev refers Kiselova's decision on the euro referendum to the CC

"In my view, the Constitutional Court will partially admit the request, and I don’t believe it will produce the outcome that is being anticipated, as the reasoning states that the powers of the Speaker of the National Assembly are exhaustively enumerated at the constitutional level. As the Constitution has provided that there are rules of procedure which the National Assembly adopts, in the rules of procedure the Speaker has 17 powers and, in addition to these, there is the possibility that other laws may provide for the powers of the Speaker. So I don't think that is a correct form and correct reading of the constitutional text. The Rules of Procedure and Organization of Parliament provide for other possibilities that have been provided for in the rules of all assemblies since the 36th for decades."