site.btaTISP Says It Won't Be "Mere Rubber Stamp for CC-DB Bills"

There Is Such a People (TISP) won't be a mere rubber stamp for the legislative proposals of Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), the party leader, Slavi Trifonov, said in a Facebook post Monday. He commented a CC-DB proposal for legislative solutions to enhance the fight against corruption. 

Trifonov said that TISP will consider the proposed bills and other solutions, will discuss them with their legal experts and make "suggestions and corrections where necessary". 

He wrote, "CC-DB did not even think that soon the Constitutional Court will rule on the legality of the amendments they made to the Constitution and if these turn out to be unconstitutional - which they are - then the proposed election of the Anti-Corruption Commission members will prove to be pointless and illegal. Their proposal for a new Judiciary Act will also be unconstitutional."

Trifonov adds that, according to constitutional law experts, if the President postpones the handing of a government mandate by three months, which is what CC-DB have asked of him, it would be a flagrant violation of the Constitution and he could be impeached for it. "I don't know about you, but the President and his team don't look like fools to me. Neither are the TISP MPs," he added.

Trifonov's take on the President's meeting with CC-DB is that "CC-DB went to the President and tried to hide behind his back to cover up their absolute helplessness and inadequacy as mandate-bearers. They went there to hide behind the person they had called 'a Putinist'. It is so pathetic that it makes me sad," the TISP leader said.