Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev. File photo
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has reiterated his hope that the upcoming referendum on the fate of the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project will be "successfully organized."
Plevneliev has declared that he wants the referendum to take place with no political confrontation between the main political parties and with people being motivated to take part in it.
"Since we have over 500 000 legitimate signatures, a referendum with take place and the big question is not whether and when, but how," he told reporters.
The President said he did not care who would win and who would lose, as long as the referendum is well organized.
Bulgaria's centrist-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, government scrapped the Belene NPP project in March 2012, declaring it economically unfeasible. The pro-Belene Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, then launched a petition for a referendum on the Russian-Bulgarian project's fate.
The inspection of the petition recently concluded, with 543 639 valid signatures, enough to make the vote irreversible.
The referendum is expected to take place within the next three months.
On Friday, Plevneliev will launch discussions with political party leaders on what the exact question should be for the referendum.