President Rumen Radev has appealed to the Constitutional Court with a request to declare the Law on Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, which creates a special prosecutor investigating the chief prosecutor or his deputy, unconstitutional, BTA has reported.
The introduction of the figure of a special prosecutor investigating the chief prosecutor or his deputy and the transfer of jurisdiction in these cases entirely to the Specialized Criminal Court affect basic constitutional values such as the independence of prosecutors within the judiciary, the equality of citizens before the law and the prohibition of extraordinary courts, the request reads.
On Wednesday morning, visibility will be reduced in some places in the valleys, plains and along the Black Sea coast. Minimum temperatures will range between minus 3 and 2°C, around minus 2°C in Sofia. During the day it will be sunny with highs between..
For the first time in recent election history, the end election result leaves a party running in the election outside the National Assembly with a result of 3.999% (Velichie), 21 votes short of the electoral threshold, reads a position by the..
The Central Election Commission (CEC) is sending the prosecutor the video recordings of the ballot count in 7 polling stations where there is a discrepancy in the number of votes counted. The prosecutors will have to check whether there is..
For the first time in recent election history, the end election result leaves a party running in the election outside the National Assembly with a..
The European Parliament has approved the nomination of Bulgarian Ekaterina Zaharieva as European Commissioner. She will be in charge of the 'Start-ups,..
A meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Romania and Austria in Budapest could lead to a change in Austria's stance on the two countries joining..
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