The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has urged the authorities in Bulgaria to urgently take measures to reduce the influence of the Prosecutor General on the Supreme Judicial Council and the Prosecutors’ College, and for the..
“The European Commission has raised the issue, with particular poignancy, of the liability of the prosecutor general and of public scrutiny of his acts,” caretaker Minister of Justice Ivan Demerdzhiev said for BNT. The caretaker government has..
For the first time the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) – the highest judicial body – is discussing the early termination of the powers of a prosecutor general. The request for the dismissal of Ivan Geshev was referred to the SJC a week ago by..
In a survey regarding the most desired changes to the constitution, the greatest number of respondents say they want fewer MPs, no more than two terms of office for the prime minister and a shorter term of office for the prosecutor general (currently..
The National Assembly rejected the presidential veto on introducing the figure of a special prosecutor to investigate the prosecutor general and deputy prosecutor general. President Rumen Radev vetoed the bill on grounds that the change does..
The approval, at first reading in parliament, of the creation of the figure of a prosecutor to investigate the Prosecutor General of Bulgaria took the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) by surprise. This is what..
The Monitoring Group on Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights (DRFMG) in the European Parliament is not satisfied with the answers it received to written questions sent by it to the Bulgarian authorities about the course of the judicial reform,..
A national protest rally mottoed “Together we shall be victorious” is scheduled for 5 PM today, 21 November in Narodno Subranie square in front of the historical building of the National Assembly, the organizers have announced. “The reasons..
Protesters demanding the resignation of the government and of Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev have scheduled their 109 th protest for tonight in the centre of Sofia. Al always, last night’s protest passed under the motto “We are not afraid.” “..
Demonstrators are expected to come out into the streets for a 95 th night of protest demanding the resignation of the government and of the prosecutor general tonight. Last night they once again gathered, though in fewer numbers, around..
