Democratic Bulgaria will ask the Constitutional Court to strike down the law on aid for farmers. MP Lyuben Ivanov from Democratic Bulgaria told reporters in parliament's corridors. Lawmakers passed the law on second reading last week.

Ivanov said his party had hoped president Rumen Radev's deputy, Iliana Yotova, would send the law back over the way it handles the so-called "blank spots" funds. "Democratic Bulgaria will file a request to have the law declared unconstitutional because it breaches article 17 of the constitution, since it tramples on the right to private property," he said.

Ivanov said the party's worries center on rent money for land marked as "blank spots," which the state owes to the owners. Under the law as passed, though, that money will go into a mutual aid fund instead, and people with a claim to it will lose it, he said.

Fellow Democratic Bulgaria MP Svilen Trifonov pointed out that the European Court of Human Rights has already ruled on this issue. He said the party had cited that ruling both in committee and on the floor during the second reading, but MPs ignored it. "What matters most is that president Yotova should have looked at that ruling, at our arguments, at the debate in the chamber, and sent the bill back," Trifonov said.

"She didn't, because we've always said she's an extension of president Radev, and we can't expect her to act in defense of Bulgarian citizens, because she's simply following a political line that isn't her own," Trifonov added.