At the beginning of today's parliamentary sitting, Parliamentary Speaker Rosen Zhelyazkov congratulated Muslims in Bulgaria on the holiday of Ramadan Bayram. Former Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov and ex-finance minister Assen Vassilev returned to..
Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva has submitted a recommendation to the Ministry of Health to publish a list of medications which give a false positive on drug tests for drivers. Confiscation of vehicles - a solution in the fight against..
Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva sharply criticized the proposed amendments to the law amending and supplementing the Energy Act. She has submitted a statement with her objections to Energy Minister Rumen Radev. Diana Kovacheva’s primary argument is that..
“The acts which crush human dignity, torture and inhuman treatment must be criminalised with amendments to the Criminal Code, and for them there must be severe punishment,” says Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva. Sadistic violence against a young..
The centres for people at risk are forced to close their doors over electricity and gas prices. In a letter addressed to the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Social Policy and to the chair of the parliamentary Committee on Labour, Social and..
Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva has asked for an analysis and assessment of the effect of the introduction of environmental stickers for cars of up to 3.5 tons. She is recommending that the sticker requirement be abolished because the extent to..
Bulgaria's Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva was elected a member of the leadership of the global and European networks of human rights institutions. There are only four European representatives in the leadership of the world network, one of whom will now be..
Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva has called on the Central Election Commission (CEC) to resolve the problem of the right to vote of persons who are quarantined at an address different from their fixed domicile or residence. For them no possibility is..
Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva has requested that the health minister issue an order making Covid-19 vaccination certificates free of charge, the Ombudsman's press service has announced. The request comes in the wake of numerous complaints that health..
Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva is proposing that sellers of old cars, sold before 2017, be able to deregister them at the traffic police department by presenting the buy-sell contracts. This will end the corrupt practice of unscrupulous buyers failing to..
