On the 40th day of anti-government protests in Bulgaria, protesting citizens led by BOEC civil movement blocked the building of the Ministry of Justice in Sofia. They callеd for a meeting with Justice Minister Danail Kirilov, claiming they would hand..
GERB is submitting its draft for a new constitution, said the Prime Minister and leader of GERB Boyko Borissov in a statement posted on his Facebook page and expressed readiness to meet with his coalition partners. The prime minister called for a contact..
A request for debates on the institutional crisis in Bulgaria has been submitted to the European Parliament, supported by 55 MEPs. Among the signatories are representatives of the EPP, the Liberals, as most of them are from the group of the Greens and..
Bulgaria's Head of State Rumen Radev has discussed the need for changes in the Constitution with members of the president's legal council. Radev has pointed out that the lack of sufficient guarantees for an independent and efficient judiciary poses..
30 years ago Bulgarians flooded city streets and squares to demand a re-founding of their country which, at the time, had to break with totalitarianism. Now, people from all over Bulgaria are again in the streets protesting for..
President Rumen Radev has referred the provisions of the Health Act and the declaration of an emergency epidemic situation to the Constitutional Court. The head of state disputes the power of the Council of Ministers to declare the measures, as well as..
Today marks 138 years since the adoption of the Tarnovo Constitution. On 16 April 1879 the Constituent Assembly in the city of Veliko Tarnovo, Central Northern Bulgaria, adopted the first basic law of the Principality of Bulgaria formed after the..
According to a national survey done by the National Center for the Study of the Public Opinion in May 2016, about 76 percent of Bulgarian citizens have not read the country’s Constitution. Half of the respondents do not know when the current Constitution..
The aim of democratization of Bulgarian society has undoubtedly been achieved, President of the Bulgarian National Assembly, Tsetska Tsacheva, said on the occasion of the professional holiday of lawyers in this country - Constitution Day. Ms. Tsacheva..
