January 16, 2025 is the possible date of which will elect a new chief prosecutor. This became clear from the meeting of the Prosecutor's College of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) this morning.
"The Supreme Judicial Council itself has an expired mandate. He picked the previous attorney general, then quite suddenly fired him. It is good for members to publicly explain their motives. The community needs to get answers before entering a new round. If it is served again by the same - what does the country and justice gain? We're going to the same place, if not back".
This was commented by the former director of the National Investigative Service (NSI) and former deputy chief prosecutor Boyko Naydenov in the program "The Day ON AIR".
In his words, the prosecutor's office is too important socio-politically to be left to the choice. He emphasized that all the chief prosecutors were elected politically.
"In the beginning, politically it meant making changes, changing post-communist habits. After that, things changed," Naydenov told Bulgaria ON AIR.
According to him, the Constitutional Court is politically appointed and could not be independent.
"The important thing is to overcome commitments, but this is not happening,", he clarified and called on the members of the SJC to consider with their expired mandate whether they have the moral right to appoint the next chief prosecutor.
"The political parties could not agree on which people should be appointed to the SJC. We are becoming hostages to the lack of a political decision on what kind of future Bulgaria should have, which should depend only on the law. We must look for new solutions, new approaches, look at what is happening in other countries and know what we want," added the former deputy chief prosecutor.
Naydenov is of the opinion that a large part of the population does not want to follow laws and rules.
"It is much more comfortable to live in a society of legal nihilism. Compliance with the laws is a guarantee of prosperity," he is emphatic.