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Anton Kutev: Slavi Trifonov's call for a presidential republic referendum is a pre-election provocation

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The leader of ITN party, Slavi Trifonov, has not coordinated with the current head of state of Bulgaria Rumen Radev his proposal for ​​holding a referendum on a presidential republic, Anton Kutev, the spokesman of the caretaker cabinet, told Nova TV. He defined Trifonov's statement as a "self-initiative" and "pre-election provocation". 

According to the spokesman of the cabinet, such a referendum will hardly lead to changes in Bulgaria's political system, especially since a qualified majority of 2/3 of the votes is required to change the Constitution. 

Meanwhile, former parliamentary speaker and member of ITN Iva Miteva explained to bTV that Slavi Trifonov rather had the idea of ​​a semi-presidential form of government. According to her, this means that the directly elected president should indicate who will be prime minister, and he, in turn, should ask for a vote of confidence from the National Assembly for his government.



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