Bulgaria Unearths More State Gazette Blunders

To correct the latest mistake, parliamentary speaker Tsetska Tsacheva suggested that the right amendment to the drugs law is put to the vote in parliament and adopted. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria will have to adopt legislative changes to prevent the promulgation of amendments by mistake, without the approval of the parliament or the president.

This emerged from an open letter by parliamentary speaker Tsetska Tsacheva to President Georgi Parvanov, following a blunder that put an illegitimate amendment to the drugs law in the State Gazette.

The amendment was not given the green light by either the parliament or the president, but actually relieved the regime for advertising agencies to use images, resembling drugs.

Even though the Socialist president called it a precedent, at least since his coming into office, the parliamentary speaker, who comes from the ruling center-right party, claims a check has found a total of eleven such amendments in the period 2000-2010.

“As I share your view about the need for transparency and prevention of other such cases, I personally commit myself to initiate changes that will improve the legislation concerned and if necessary the organization and activities of the parliament,” the statement says.

To correct the latest mistake, Tsacheva suggested that the right amendment to the drugs law is put to the vote in parliament and adopted.

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