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Bulgaria’s President, Georgi Parvanov (L), and PM, Boyko Borisov (R) met Monday to discuss the most pressing political and economy issues the country is currently facing. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria’s President, Georgi Parvanov, is going to veto the amendments of the Defense and the Demonstrations and Meetings Acts.
Parvanov made the declaration Monday during his meeting with Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov. The two held talks on the most pressing political and economy issues the country is currently facing.
Borisov said he supports the President’s request that the Members of the Parliament reexamine the disputed texts.
Parvanov believes his authority as Commander in Chief is becoming restricted with the Defense Act amendments, which provide that the Defense Head responds directly to the Defense Minister, saying he is firm on not changing the presidential rights during his current term.
Borisov and Parvanov also agreed that citizens should continue to be able to organize public meetings and protest rallies, but that a 5 to 20-meter security zone should be established around the Parliament, Council of Ministers and Presidential buildings.
Borisov told Parvanov he had been very busy lately and did not have the time to thoroughly examine the amendments, but promised to ask the Parliament to take a second look.
The rightist Democrats for Strong Bulgaria immediately declared they would not support Parvanov’s request for a new discussion of the Defense Act amendments, saying if he wanted a veto, he should have done this last year when the Act was passed, instead of being too busy with making personnel changes at the Army.
The meeting was also attended by the leaders of Bulgaria’s two main Labor Unions – KNSB and Podkrepa, Zhelyazko Hristov and Konstantin Trenchev.
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