Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court will examine a request to assess the decision to provide military support to Ukraine, filed by pro-Russian populist party Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov on behalf of his party.
In December, parliament lawmakers decided to provide military support to Ukraine with a convincing majority. Only Vazrazhdane and the Socialist Party BSP were against it, saying this would lead Bulgaria to be “permanently involved in the armed conflict”.
Providing assistance to the Ukraine army – notably from its huge stocks of Soviet-standard ammunition – “is not only frivolous, but also criminal in its nature, taking sides in the conflict,” the request drafted by Kostadinov, a lawyer and ethnographer by trade, and backed by 50 MPs from BSP and Vazrarhdane, writes.
In the same request, the MPs compare Bulgaria’s NATO membership to when the Kingdom of Bulgaria was a vassal state to the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 14th century.
Judge Yanaki Stoilov, a former MP from the BSP and a former minister of justice, is the rapporteur for the case in the Constitutional Court. He is a member of the court from the quota of President Rumen Radev, who, like BSP and Vazrazhdane, does not want Bulgaria to send military aid to Ukraine, arguing that this directly involves the country in the war.
In the documents on the constitutional case, it is explicitly written that Kostadinov represents all 50 deputies, including those from the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
(Krassen Nikolov | EURACTIV.bg)
Source: euractiv.com
