Bulgarian MPs Ask Probe of Top Cop's Pressure on Judiciary

Domestic | February 10, 2012, Friday // 14:58|  views

BSP MP, and former Interior Minister, Mihail Mikov (pictured), reported that the opposition is demanding a probe of successor Tsvetan Tsvetanov's numerous clashes with Bulgarian magistrates. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency

Over sixty Members of the Parliament have collected the necessary signatures to request the establishment of a temporary inquiry committee to probe Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov's alleged pressure on the judiciary.

The information was reported by the MPs from the left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, and former Interior Minister, Mihail Mikov, and from the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, Hristo Biserov.

The opposition wants the committee to have 11 members – 2 from each parliamentary represented political party and one independent MP, and for the probe to conclude in 2 months.

According to Mikov, the committee will have to investigate cases of violations of the "presumed innocent until proven guilty" rule, naming special police operations after magistrates, attacks on judges, and unfounded comments on Court rules and motives.

Biserov adds that the MPs have all rights and grounds to ask for such committee over yet another negative report of the European Commission, critical of the country's justice system, because the opposition had joined around the opinion that Tsvetanov is the main culprit for the criticism.

The signatures under the petition come from BSP, DPS, and the far-right, nationalist Ataka party, while the Co-Chair of the right-wing Blue Coalition, Ivan Kostov, had proposed some revisions of the motives.

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Tags: European Commission, EC, Hristo Biserov, DPS, pressure, magistrates, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, opposition, Mihail Mikov, Interior Minister, MP, BSP, report, Ataka, Blue Coalition, temporary inquiry committee

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