Cabinet warns it may refer to the Constitutional Court over Board of Peace

With the votes of GERB-SDS, "DPS-New Beginning", ITN and five MPs who are not members of groups, after nearly 2 hours of debates, the National Assembly obliged the Council of Ministers to submit a draft to ratify the agreement for the accession of the Republic of Bulgaria to Donald Trump's Board of Peace, BTA has reported.

Earlier today, Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov said the government will refer to the Constitutional Court if it is obliged by parliament to submit for ratification Bulgaria's accession to the Board of Peace initiated by Donald Trump. Such an obligation is provided for in a draft of the "DPS - New Beginning" submitted to parliament.

"We can already see that political parties are entering an election campaign and I understand how certain politicians are trying to trade national interests for being removed from the Magnitsky list, but there is a clear practice of the Constitutional Court that the National Assembly cannot ascribe actions to the caretaker government," Gyurov said. Caretaker Foreign Minister Nadezhda Neynski pointed out that Bulgaria, like a number of other EU countries, has reservations about the legal status of the expanded version of the Board of Peace.


Editor: Miglena Ivanova