In the meantime, the There is Sich People political party (ITN) will make new changes to the just promulgated law.
The Bulgarian State Gazette promulgates today the speedily adopted changes to the Law on Preschool and School Education, it is clear from a reference by BGNES in the official publication of Bulgaria.
With the amendments and additions to the law proposed by the "Vazrazhdane" political party in the preschool and school education system, actions related to:
the imposition of ideological and/or religious doctrines;
the implementation of political and party activities;
carrying out propaganda, promoting or inciting in any way, directly or indirectly, ideas and views related to non-traditional sexual orientation and/or determination of gender identity other than biological."
A new provision is written in the texts, according to which "non-traditional sexual orientation" is different from the generally accepted and established in the Bulgarian legal tradition concepts of emotional, romantic, sexual or sensual attraction between persons of opposite sexes".
Media expert Assoc. Georgi Lozanov is categorical that there is no LGBTI propaganda not only in schools but in general in the entire public environment. According to him, through this bill, Kostadin Kostadinov is trying to push through another Russian sinister law - the law on so-called foreign agents.
BGNES recalls that after the two readings of the law, non-governmental organizations called on President Rumen Radev to impose a veto. The coalition "Together against Violence" collected signatures from 73 non-governmental organizations and over 6,000 citizens against the changes and with the assistance of the Youth LGBT organization "Action" the signature was submitted to the presidency.
However, on Thursday, Dondukov 2 reported that President Radev had signed a decree promulgating the changes. "The head of state has expressed his attitude to the changes in the Law on preschool and school education by signing a decree on its promulgation," they said only from there.
Today, the MP from ITN Alexander Valchev announced with a declaration from the parliamentary rostrum that ITNs are making new changes to the Law on preschool and school education. Slavi Trifonov's MPs believe that the already promulgated ones do not include minors between 16 and 18 years old who do not continue their studies, and this - in his words - is the most vulnerable age.
The changes from the ITN foresee a ban on the direct presentation, advertising and performance of medical activities with methods and technologies for changing the biological sex of persons under 18 years of age. The penalty for not complying with the ban is imprisonment from 1 to 3 years, Bulgarian National Radio specifies.
The changes contradict basic principles in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as rights and freedoms regulated in the Constitution of Bulgaria, adds bTV in its publication, citing respected lawyers and professors at Sofia University and New Bulgarian University.
The amendments could be challenged before the Constitutional Court by the ombudsman, but the National Assembly has yet to appoint a new public defender after Diana Kovacheva resigned to become a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. | BGNES
