President Radev: The draft amendments to the Constitution are legally illiterate

The draft constitutional amendments are legally illiterate and this is evident to constitutionalists and citizens alike, President Rumen Radev said on July 26.

"After a very long warming up of the public for upcoming miraculous changes in the justice system, I stress, justice reform, our society expected to see working solutions so that they lead to more justice and accountability, to less politicisation of the judiciary, to more predictability and faster court proceedings," Radev stressed.

The President was commenting on the draft constitutional changes that “We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria” (WCC-DB), presented to the media on July 23. One of the proposed amendments is that May 24, the Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, the Bulgarian Alphabet, Education and Culture and of Slav Letters, be made a national holiday and renamed "Day of Bulgarian Language, Education and Culture, and of the Cyrillic Alphabet".

The topic of changing the Bulgarian national holiday sparked debate in Parliament