site.btaBSP Leader Ninova Asks for Support for Referendum Against "Gender Ideology"

BSP Leader Korneliya Ninova asked for support from Bulgarian citizens for the referendum against "gender ideology". "Help us save at least the children, support us in the launched referendum on banning gender ideology in schools," she urged from the parliamentary rostrum on Thursday .

The reason for the declaration is a European Parliament (EP) Wednesday decision to support the introduction of the Istanbul Convention in the European Union.

It all started six years ago, the fight against violence against women, Ninova said. This is a horrible and intolerable crime, we all have to take measures to stop it, she said, adding that the BSP for Bulgaria in the fourth consecutive National Assembly is introducing a law to combat domestic violence. But behind the veil of this noble cause, the Istanbul Convention is introducing into European legislation a third, so-called social, gender different from the biological man or woman, Ninova argued.

EP ratified the convention on Wednesday. That means that it becomes European law, which stands above national law, Ninova commented and asked, "Where are we headed to now?". She pointed out that her party has made quick consultations and some of the constitutionalists in Bulgaria say that it is binding for Bulgaria, others - that the country should look for options to get out of the situation. It is late, but the situation is not insurmountable, the BSP leader said.

Ninova pointed out that on Wednesday Bulgarian MEPs from all parliamentary groups voted in favour of the ratification of the convention. "Yesterday Sergey Stanishev and Elena Yoncheva voted in favour – they are from the BSP for Bulgaria,” she said. For these people there is no Bulgarian Constitution and no decision of the Constitutional Court, she added. In her words, for these people the opinion of 80% of the Bulgarian citizens does not matter, there is no national sovereignty, there is no equality of the EU member states, and for them everything boils down to "foreignism". Tomorrow [former BSP leader, now MEP] Stanishev is organising a discussion on the modern left, Ninova stated. “Is this the modern left, is this their modern left - gender ideology and a third gender other than man and woman,” she asked.

“We see the modern left as something completely different: it is still about workers' rights, ecology and a healthy lifestyle, it touches on the topic how artificial intelligence will develop and affect the labour market,” the BSP leader pointed out. “For us these are progressive left issues, for them "genderism" is the progressive left,” Ninova added.