The opinion of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) is critical when it comes to most of the proposals for changes to the Constitution, Minister of Justice Atanas Slavov told journalists after the meeting of the SJC. He said he would..
The parliament in Skopje, the Republic of North Macedonia, has opened the discussion on the changes to the Constitution of North Macedonia which Bulgaria is demanding. The procedure was started after, on 25 July, the parliamentary Constitutional..
Bulgarian Minister of Justice, Atanas Slavov, has sent the draft changes to the Constitution to the Venice Commission. The request to the European Commission for Democracy through Law, which is an advisory body of the Council of..
The Legal Affairs Committee has adopted proposed changes to the Criminal Code which would raise the penalties for light and medium bodily harm. The draft, tabled by GERB-SDS, PP-DB and MRF, was approved unanimously. It provides for the perpetrator to..
"We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria" together with "Justice for All" Initiative will present their project for constitutional changes tomorrow, the ruling coalition has announced. After a meeting with the leaders of the..
The idea is being discussed in parliament of eliminating the position of prosecutor general. MPs discuss eliminating the figure of the Prosecutor General In an interview with BGNES, Nadezhda Yordanova from the..
The BSP will not withdraw its bill for changes in the Electoral Code . "We will not accept a dialogue with an ultimatum," said "BSP for Bulgaria"'s chairwoman Kornelia Ninova in a statement from the parliamentary rostrum. In her words, half of the..
"The changes to the Electoral Code voted on second reading by the National Assembly's legal committee are probably not unconstitutional, but they are wrong and harmful," the interim Justice Minister Krum Zarkov said at a briefing. The Minister..
After GERB leader Boyko Borisov called on MPs of his party to rethink the changes to the Electoral Code voted in the legal committee, the party announced that they would not rush with the amendments and that they were ready to make..
