Bulgarian MPs Reject Probe in Dead Baby Case

Bulgarian independent MP, elected on the RZS ballot, Emil Vasilev, is staging a 24-hour hunger strike against "the monstrous police regime" in the country. Photo by BGNES

The Bulgarian Members of the Parliament rejected the request to establish a temporary inquiry committee to probe the scandal with the dead baby in the central town of Gorna Oryahovitsa.

The proposal came from the right-wing Blue Coalition saying this would be the only parliamentary authority to be able to obtain access to the documents from the case, including the coroners' report.

The Blue Coalition MP, Dr. Vanyo Sharkov, pointed out the spying scandals with recordings of discrediting conversations between key Bulgarian political figures began precisely with this case when Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, read in plenary hall the special surveillance devices content of talks between Gorna Oryahovitsa doctors.

The Parliament also rejected the Blue Coalition's request for a project declaration to condemn violence against Bulgarian Muslims; the request of the leader of the conservative Order, Law and Justice (RZS) party, Yane Yanev, to hold a hearing of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, on the cabinet's action to inform the European institutions about the spying scandals in Bulgaria, and the request of the RZS MP, Georgi Terziyski and the independent MP, elected on the RZS ballot, Emil Vasilev, to hold a hearing of Tsvetanov on "unregulated" activities of employees of the State Agency for National Security (DANS).

Meanwhile, Vasilev announced he is staging a 24-hour hunger strike against "the monstrous police regime" in the country.

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