President Rumen Radev today again referred to the Constitutional Court with a request to declare unconstitutional the amendments to the Constitution made by the 49th National Assembly, related to the abolition of the ban on dual citizenship as a mandatory condition for the eligibility of MPs, to the ill-considered introduction of the principle of continuity of the mandate of deputies and parliament, as well as to the formation of a caretaker government.
In his reasoning, the Head of State underlines his consistent positions, justifying the need to refer the matter to the Constitutional Court again also by the emergence of a number of new circumstances which have become apparent in the application of the contested texts. The contested amendments to the Constitution “abolish the mechanisms of political accountability in the formation and functioning of the organs of state governance”, the President states in his reasons.
In his request to the Constitutional Court, the Head of State noted that the re-referral would provide an opportunity to clarify a number of controversial points which have already marked the procedures for forming a caretaker government under the new procedure and which continue to hamper the functioning of constitutionally established bodies, including Parliament itself. Even now, some of the difficulties in the selection of the Speaker of the National Assembly are reflected in the presence of this top post in the so-called „house book“ for the election of a caretaker Prime Minister.
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