Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, might refer to the Constitutional Court the referendum on the project to build a second Nuclear Power Plant in the Danube town of Belene.

Plevneliev made the comment upon conclusion of consultations on the subject with all parliamentary represented political parties. They focused on the wording of the question of the referendum.

"I am not announcing a final decision that I have made, but in the course of the consultations serious doubts were raised. Our positions defer," the President said, cited by the news agency BGNES.

The GERB government scrapped the Belene NPP project in March 2012, declaring it economically unfeasible. The pro-Belene, opposition 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 the 543 639 valid signatures are enough to make the vote irreversible.

Plevneliev explained Monday a consensus on the question has not been reached because some political parties believe the one formulated in the BSP petition violates the Constitution, while others are exactly of the opposite opinion.

The question of the petition is: "Should nuclear energy be developed in Bulgaria through the building of a Nuclear Plant on the Belene site?"

"Realizing that the first ever referendum in the history of democratic Bulgaria is extremely important and there shouldn't be any doubts about it being carried out according to the rules and in unison with the Constitution and the laws of the country, I am not ruling out the possibility to approach the Constitutional Court," Plevneliev commented.

We need your support so Novinite.com can keep delivering news and information about Bulgaria! Thank you!