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President Rosen Plevneliev has expressed concern over a referendum on Bulgaria's political system approved by Bulgarian lawmakers.
The petition containing hundreds of thousands of signatures that back the national poll with six points was submitted earlier this spring. Parliament approved all questions, even the introduction of remote electronic voting which has already been backed in another referendum.
Other issues raised by Slavi's Show,a popular TV show, include cutting in half the number of MPs from 240 to 120, introduction of two-round majority electoral system, introduction of compulsory voting, reducing the state subsidy paid to parties and coalitions to BGN 1 per voter and the direct election of the directors of the regional directorates of the interior ministry and the heads of district police departments.
But Plevneliev said e-voting had already been approved by lawmakers as a result of a nationwide poll he triggered himself last year.
"How many times should we ask the Bulgarian people the same question. To me, the big question is what is the purpose of allowing a referendum on the same question two times within a year. This is very strange to me," the Bulgarian National Radio quotes him as saying.
Bulgaria's head of state added his institution would take a stand in a few days' time.
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