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Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov will go to Brussels for a meeting of EU leaders on “Europe and the Western Balkans” without a decision to lift the veto of northern Macedonia, according to Bulgarian media Novinite.bg.
Despite the GERB party expressing clear support for the European integration of the Western Balkans, Petkov and the MPs of the “We Continue Change” party tried to ignore the decision of the Council of Ministers to be voted in the National Assembly.
However, Prime Minister Lena Borislavova’s chief of staff announced that Kiril Petkov will not deviate from the formula of the decision for Macedonia, namely that the decision be passed to the parliamentary committee for foreign policy, then to the plenary hall and then to the Council of Ministers.
And the opposition said the government was carrying out unconstitutional act with such ideas.
Opposition lawmakers recalled that according to the Constitution, Bulgaria’s foreign policy is governed by the Council of Ministers, not the National Assembly.
Although Foreign Minister Teodora Gençovska was also present at the parliamentary session of the committee, most of the deputies decided to postpone the meeting of the committee, as the approach proposed by GERB-UDF should have first a government decision and then a parliamentary decision.
“I call on the Council of Ministers not to hide behind the National Assembly, it is the leading institution and we expect it to make clear and responsible decisions.”said President Rumen Radev in a comment.
The President warned that at the moment the veto can not be lifted without the signing of the Bilateral Protocol between Sofia and Skopje, the initial version of which does not take into account the national interests of Bulgaria, writes Epicenter.bg.
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