More than 4,000 citizens visited the National Assembly at the Open House (OBZOR)

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Sofia. More than 4,000 citizens visited the National Assembly on the occasion of the Open House. The smallest visitor was 6 months old and the oldest was 86 years old. All visitors had the opportunity to shoot the chair and hit the parliamentary bell, as well as to feel the spirit of legislating. The occasion was the anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria by the Seventh Great National Assembly. In the north hall of the National Assembly, an exhibition was opened in which the original of the new Bulgarian Constitution was exposed. The exhibition is complemented by an exhibition of photos, which sealed moments of his acceptance.The moments were captured by the photographer Velislav Nikolov.
Throughout the day, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Tsveta Karaiancheva, welcomed the guests into the plenary hall, including many young people. She answered their questions about the work of Parliament and the issues they were concerned about. Karayancheva welcomed the students from Sofia schools and told them that she was very excited about their visit. "I hope you're excited because this building has a lot of history, but it has a lot of future." Many young people visit the building of the National Assembly, draw from the source, from history, "said Karayancheva.According to her, they must be proud to have such a history and a democratic Constitution signed, as well as the fact that we live in a free and democratic Bulgaria.
FOCUS News Agency recalls:
The Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria is promulgated in the State Gazette, number 56 of 13 July 1991. The preamble of the Constitution states:
We, parliamentarians of the Seventh Grand National Assembly, in our desire to express the will of the Bulgarian people, declaring our loyalty to universal values: freedom, peace, humanism, equality, justice and tolerance;
elevating human rights, dignity and security to a supreme principle
Conscious of the irrevocable duty to preserve the national and national unity of Bulgaria, we proclaim our determination to create a democratic, legal and social state, for which we accept this Constitution
Denitsa KITANOVA

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