President ready with a draft for new Constitution

Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev is ready with his draft for a new Constitution, but will announce it after the unconditional resignation of the Prime Minister and the Chief Prosecutor, the President told journalists on September 1 during the opening of the academic year at "Georgi Stoykov Rakovski" Military Academy.

According to him, the resignation of the government is inevitable. He called on the MPs, who gather tomorrow for the first sitting of the new autumn-winter parliamentary season, not to vote for an expert cabinet, because this would concrete the "Borissov" regime.

According to the head of state, the government has exhausted public trust, has no right to offer governing decisions and must go.

"These relentless protests are the real, public vote of no confidence in the government, and I don't think Borissov's failed government can lead any constitutional debate at all, or continue to run, or determine the country's future. And it is cynical, that this government which has trampled the Constitution, now has the ambition to give Bulgarian citizens a new Constitution," Radev said.

He firmly refused to comment on GERB's proposals for a new Constitution.

"I will not allow myself to be involved in this debate. I will initiate it immediately and very professionally, at expert level, but as soon as I see the resignations. I have a ready version of a draft Constitution. This government is morally finished and it is important that it is finished formally. Everything else is agony, a waste of historical time and fuels people's anger even more," the President said.

Radev called on the MPs not to allow concreting of the current regime.

They should never vote for an expert cabinet. Because the people are protesting and they want the resignation of this government to put an end to the Borissov regime, and not to concrete this regime behind some expert cabinet, which will be nothing more than a puppet of the current regime. Because with an expert cabinet, the Borissov regime will organize the elections again. And that means officially guaranteeing lifelong governance," Radev said.

"Definitely should not be adopted in this form, no matter what changes to the electoral law are made," Radev said.

"Machine voting must be definitely guaranteed. And the wishes of the people, the demands of millions of our compatriots abroad for remote electronic voting cannot be easily ignored," the President said.

Citizens had gathered in front of the entrance of the Military Academy to protest, dissatisfied with the recent political statements of the head of state.