site.btaGERB-UDF Urges President not to Put Pressure on Constitutional Court over New Judges

The power-sharing GERB-UDF Tuesday urged President Rumen Radev "not to put pressure on the independent Constitutional Court" over the election of new judges. Speaking to reporters, GERB-UDF MP Raya Nazaryan, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs, said that the President has once again demonstrated his disagreement with the fact that the National Assembly is functioning, adopting important laws and decisions, which, in her words, clearly contradicts Radev’s understanding of one man running the state, as observed under his caretaker cabinets.

Nazaryan’s comment came after Radev has asked the Constitutional Court to declare unconstitutional the January 19, 2024 National Assembly resolutions on the election of Desislava Atanasova and Borislav Belazelkov as Constitutional Court (CC) judges.

According to Nazaryan, the President has yet again showed that he seeks conflict with the National Assembly, aiming to weaken the stable parliamentary majority which is tasked with key reforms.

"In this regard, we remind the President that the judges he appoints on his quota, he appoints unilaterally, and the procedure the National Assembly conducted to elect CC judges was public, transparent and open", the MP stressed.