Bulgaria State Gazette Blunder Back in Parliament

Parliamentary speaker Tsetska Tsacheva explained that the MPs have the final word and claimed responsibility for the error. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria’s parliament will debate on Wednesday the opposition proposal to appoint a temporary investigation committee over the blunder that put an illegitimate amendment to the drugs law in the State Gazette.

The amendment to the law on drugs, which was published in Bulgaria's State Gazette without the approval of the parliament or the president, has been innocently passed off as an involuntary mistake by the ruling GERB party. who has been accused of lobbying and forging a part of the law on drugs.

The illegitimate amendment was published in the State Gazette edition on March 23 and actually relieved the regime for advertising agencies to use images, resembling drugs.

Experts have commented that a legislative amendment can not be treated as a technical change and should also be given the green light by the parliament and the president, who has called the incident “a precedent”.

The parliamentary health commission put to the vote the amendment at the beginning of April and corrected the mistake.

Parliamentary speaker Tsetska Tsacheva explained that the MPs have the final word and claimed responsibility for the error.

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