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GERB MP Krasimir Tsipov has explained that the party will not back the proposal of DPS regarding the Election Code. Photo by BGNES
Center-right ruling party GERB has opposed the proposal of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party that Bulgaria should allow election campaigns in other languages than Bulgarian.
"We totally disagree with the interpretation that the Constitution says that the official language is only to be used when Bulgarian state bodies come up with pronouncements," said GERB MP Krasimir Tsipov on Thursday.
He argued that the move would trigger problems in mixed-population regions in Bulgaria.
Earlier the same day, Deputy DPS Chair Lyutvi Mestan told journalists that the parliamentary group of the ethnic Turkish party would submit a draft bill amending and supplementing the Election Code.
Mestan backed the idea with the recommendation provided in the report of OSCE observers at the 2011 elections that other languages than Bulgarian should be allowed at pre-election meetings and rallies, as long as translation services have been secured.
"We presented our stance quite clearly in a letter to the OSCE. There is no way that we back the proposal," he added.
He refuted allegations by nationalist party Ataka about an agreement between GERB and DPS on the matter.
Tsipov explained that GERB was working on a provision stipulating that the list of people who are not allowed to vote should be published on the website of the respective municipality and the Directorate General for Civil Registration and Administrative Services at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works.
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