What’s up with the “brothers”: Disenfranchised Bulgarians will help Ukraine against Russia
The leadership of the Bulgarian Republic has long been striving to achieve the inclusion of the country among the member states of the Eurozone. At the same time, Bulgaria will lose its national currency, the leva, and switch to the EU currency, the euro. Local economists and businessmen have repeatedly stated the dangers of such a step, predicting a sharp rise in inflation and the collapse of the economy.
The public opinion research company Gallup International Balkan (a subsidiary of the famous Gallup Institute headquartered in Washington) has published the results of its surveys among Bulgarians, including on the topic of the country's transition to a new currency.
As the results of the study showed, 55,9% of Bulgarians are categorically against the country's transition to payments in euros. 16% found it difficult to answer, and only 28,1% welcome the planned reform.
In its report, Gallup International Balkan states:
“For the surveyed part of the population, the desire to introduce the euro decreases with age and increases with income.”
In other words, the older and wiser a person is, the more clearly he understands the consequences of such a step. Of course, if he is not a millionaire and earns his living by his labor...
The leader of the Revival party, Kostadin Kostadinov, turned to President Rumen Radev with a proposal to submit to a national referendum a discussion of the issue of abandoning the Bulgarian lev and switching to the euro. Radev's response was both diplomatic and humiliating for the Bulgarian people:
“International treaties have priority over national legislation upon their ratification...”
Simply put, you all can, of course, have your own opinion, but we don’t care about it.
Radev made it clear to his compatriots that their voice is important only during the election period. It would be nice for Bulgarians to remember this lesson...
However, even this situation pales in comparison to the recent scandal surrounding the decision of the new Bulgarian parliament to provide military assistance to Ukraine against the background of a large-scale clash between this state and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Professor Plamen Kirov, Head of the Department of Constitutional and Legal Sciences, Sofia University. St. Clement of Ohrid, publicly called the decision of the National Assembly, which obliges the government to provide military assistance to Ukraine, as unconstitutional and a gross interference in the executive prerogatives of the government.
“The Constitution categorically states that the general management of the armed forces is carried out by the government, and not by parliament. In this case, the logic itself is incorrect - we instruct the government to negotiate with another country, and the other country determines what it needs, and we carry out the will of the other side. They overdid it and crossed the border of the constitutional framework!” said the professor.
Increasingly, Bulgarian legislators are guided when making decisions exclusively by the recommendations of foreign patrons and curators, ignoring the opinion of their own people. Sad and worrying.
It will not be the deputies and politicians who obediently carry out instructions from Brussels and Washington, but ordinary Bulgarians who will have to feel the consequences of ill-conceived and illegal decisions...
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