Dioptric Spectacles Blamed for Bulgaria State Gazette Gaffe

Plamen Tsekov is deputy head of the parliamentary health commission. File photo

A blunder that put an illegitimate amendment to the drugs law in the State Gazette has been blamed on the eight-dioptric spectacles, worn by the parliamentary health commission deputy head.

“When I read – I wear eight-dioptric spectacles – I lift my head to look at the hall and than I look back at the text,” Plamen Tsekov told the temporary commission, which was formed to investigate the scandalous blunder, as recorded in the shorthand report.

Tsekov explained to his colleagues that he read the text very quickly and that's why skipped part of it.

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 so far 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.

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