site.btaConstitutional Government Is Based on Equality and Dignity, Says President Radev

"At times of economic inequalities and impunity of the wealthy and the powerful, it is important to remember that constitutional government is based on equality before the law and the dignity of all people," Bulgarian President Rumen Radev stated in a greetings address on the Bulgarian Constitution and Lawyers Day, the head of State's Press Secretariat reported here on Wednesday.

"Celebrating the first Bulgarian Constitution is also an occasion to praise the Constituent Assembly members, who laid the foundations of the State in Veliko Tarnovo on April 16, 1879," Radev added.

"The Constituent National Assembly consciously and categorically excluded any preconditions for inequality in society," the Head of State added and pointed to "the prohibition of slavery, titles of nobility and the division of people into estates, as well as the rejection of various types of electoral qualification, which at that time were widely used in the constitutions of other European countries," the President said further.

Radev also congratulated Bulgarian lawyers on the occasion of their holiday and wished them success in the exercise of their profession, defending the principles of the rule of law.

April 16 marks 146 years of the adoption of the Tarnovo Constitution by the Constituent Assembly (February 10 – April 16, 1879) in Tarnovo (now Veliko Tarnovo, North Central Bulgaria).