I deliberately waited for the primary, emotional phase of commenting on the amendments to the Act to pass for preschool and school education.
I waited because one of the most dangerous goals of this provocation is precisely the extreme sharpening and acrimony of the debate on social networks, instilling fears, creating social division and opposition. And we, as a society, need the opposite - a calm and serious conversation about the individual rights of people with different sexual orientations, normalization of the debate on sensitive topics, calming of unnecessary tensions and artificial fears.
The adopted amendments have countless political and legal weaknesses, among which three stand out:
1) Extreme pre-election populism, unacceptable on such sensitive topics. This populism only serves the propaganda messages of the "Revival" importers. and the real authors from the KGB/FSB troll labs.
2) Dangerous legal clumsiness of both the "prohibition" and the "definition". The texts formulated in this way suggest that individual sexuality derives from the "Bulgarian legal tradition" (?!), as well as that sexuality can be "popularized" and "incited", a term that precisely in the "Bulgarian legal tradition" is used for offences, even exclusively for felonies. As a result, we have a law that directly presupposes that sexuality is acquired as a result of external pressures (propaganda, promotion, incitement), and that it becomes "traditional" or "untraditional", as if it is a cultural trend or a confession, or worse - a form of criminal, illegal behavior.
(Interesting, but unimportant, is how the majority in the National Assembly thus falls into the trap of the neo-Marxist "Kulturkampf" it is supposedly fighting against...)
3) Third and by far the most important - the combination of heated, even hysterical, public debate and clumsy legal language creates a real danger of systematic violation of individual human rights of people of different sexual orientation, and especially - extremely dangerous psychological pressure on gay students and youth. And this against the background of the existing and systematically planted aggression against gay youth through various media channels, which often in recent years has grown into a threat against those who do not hide their different orientation, direct physical violence and several murders, apparently motivated by sexual hatred orientation.
Political responsibility here is not on "Revival" - they are successfully pursuing their destructive goals and agenda of hatred and division, this is their undisguised politics.
Responsibility lies primarily with GERB, who - out of fear, populism or complex accounts of political repositioning - served "Revival" and turned their fringe propaganda into legislation. To a much lesser extent, my political force - PPDB, which showed passivity in the debate, hesitation in the first reading vote and in other cases - a tendency to ignore the policy of complete and unconditional isolation of "Revival" from the political debate, the so-called "sanitary cordon" which mercilessly encircles the cellless ESN parliamentary group, in which "Vazrazhdane" member, in the European Parliament.
My appeal is to all persons competent under the Constitution, including MPs from PPDB and MPs from GERB, who showed dignity and normality, to appeal to the SC against the adopted texts, and especially against the definition of "non-traditional sexual orientation".
And my personal commitment is already at the beginning of the next session of the EP to take appropriate actions before the European Commission to assess the compliance of the legal amendments with EU law and before the European Parliament, including the EPP group, to assess the political effects of the adopted legislation.
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