Допитването до народа от 1922 г. или доколко може да се нарушава конституцията
The 1922 Referendum or to What an Extent Could the Constitution Be Violated

Summary/Abstract: A national referendum, the first in the country’s history, was held in Bulgaria in November 1922. The people had the obligation to say whether the ministers of the cabinets of Ivan Evstatiev Geshov, Dr Stoyan Danev and Alexander Malinov, who were in office during the period 1911–1913 and in 1918 were to blame for the two national catastrophes. The passing of the act and the holding of the referendum were at variance with the spirit and principles of the Turnovo Constitution with its strictly defined procedure for seeking the responsibility of ministers. The aim of the Agrarian Government, however, was not so much to seek the responsibility of the former ministers than to inflict a blow on the traditional bourgeois parties and their be removed and destroyed as political enemies of the agrarian regime. After long discussions in the newspapers and in Parliament, after the utmost straining of the political situation in the country, on October 14, 1922 the Act for a referendum on the culpability of the former ministers of the three cabinets was passed with the votes of the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union and the Communist Party. The referendum was held on November 19. The result was in favour of the agrarian but that neither consolidated their administration nor calmed the situation in the country and rather still more inflamed the political passions, in this way proving that the observance of the Basic law was obligatory... even for those in power.

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