Bulgaria: Rejection of LGBT propaganda in schools unites right, centre and left

@ElentirENG ES 8·08·2024 · 6:57 0

Some countries in the European Union have normalised ideological indoctrination in schools by LGBT groups.

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However, this attack on freedom of education, religious freedom and ideological freedom is increasingly being rejected in Eastern Europe, which freed itself from communism and now sees a single way of thinking trying to impose itself on society without accepting any form of dissent. Initiatives against sexual indoctrination in schools have already been promoted in Poland and in Hungary, promoted by conservative parties and provoking a campaign of attacks from centrist and leftist parties in Brussels.

A new country has now joined Poland and Hungary. Yesterday Bulgaria supported banning LGBT propaganda in schools, at the initiative of the nationalist party Vazrazhdane (member of the Europe of Sovereign Nations group in the European Parliament). The oldest newspaper in the country, Dneven Trud published the results of the vote: 135 votes in favor, 57 against and 8 abstentions.

The most interesting thing about the information published by Dneven Trud is to see how each party voted. Only two parties voted en bloc against the law: PP–DB (Continuing Change – Democratic Bulgaria, a member of the European People’s Party and with 33 seats) and DPS (Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a member of the centre-left Renew Europe group, with 18 seats).

The country's largest coalition, GERB–SDS (with 68 seats and made up of two political parties that are partners of the European People's Party), was split in this vote: 47 MPs supported the law, 6 rejected it and 8 abstained. This is a reflection of the disorientation of the European People's Party on ideological issues, especially those related to sexual or bioethical issues.

All 38 MPs from Vazrazhdane, the party that sponsored the law, voted in favour. The law was also supported by the There Is Such a People (ITN) party, which has 16 seats and is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group. In addition, 19 independent MPs supported the veto on indoctrination.

One of the biggest surprises was the support for the law by the left-wing Coalition for Bulgaria, led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP). Its 15 MPs supported the ban on indoctrination in schools, with no votes against and no abstentions. It should also be noted that 40 of the 240 MPs in the National Assembly did not participate in this vote.

What will the European partners of the centrist GERB-SDS and the socialists of the BSP do? Both the socialists and the centrists of the European People's Party have openly supported several attacks by the European institutions against Poland and Hungary over the aforementioned laws against indoctrination in schools in recent years. Will they now expel their Bulgarian partners who have supported this law? In any case, it is reassuring to see that there is at least one European country where respect for innocence and the rights of children is shared by politicians of different ideologies.

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Photo: Aboodi Vesakaran.