site.btaPrime Minister Zhelyazkov: Citizens’ Privacy Is Inviolable, State Must Put in Place Conditions to Protect It

According to the Bulgarian Constitution, citizens’ privacy is inviolable, and the state must ensure conditions for its protection, said Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov regarding the bill proposed by There Is Such a People to criminalize the dissemination of information about a person's private life without their consent.

He added that how constitutional provisions and guarantees of citizens’ rights are interpreted in legislation is a matter of the National Assembly’s autonomy.

Zhelyazkov and European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Christoph Hansen attended the opening of the reconstructed M-1 Main Canal, part of the Trakiets irrigation system in Haskovo.

“The place for debate on this topic is in the National Assembly. When I read the texts, I did not get the impression that this is about freedom of speech, but rather about revealing personal life data,” the Prime Minister added.