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The Constitutional Court decides the fate of the constitutional changes **** The Court will sit on the consolidated case

The Court will sit on the consolidated cases brought under two appeals

The Constitutional Court will sit today at 10:00 a.m. on the consolidated cases brought on on two appeals against the changes to the Constitution voted at the end of last year, according to a message on the institution's website, BTA reported.

The complaints were submitted to the court in January - by the head of state Rumen Radev and by 48 people's representatives.

Changes to the Basic Law were adopted on December 20. A total of 237 people's representatives voted. "For" there were 165 from GERB-SDS, "We continue the change - Democratic Bulgaria" (PP-DB) and DPS. "Against" were 71 from "BSP for Bulgaria", "Vazrazhdane" and "There is such a people". MP Boyko Rashkov from the PP-DB voted "abstained".

The Constitutional Court will also sit on the case initiated after a request by the then Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev to declare unconstitutional provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) and the Judiciary Powers Act (JAC) related to refusals to initiate pre-trial proceedings, the mechanism for an independent investigation of the Prosecutor General and the election of members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).