We have a problem with the controlled vote, but it must be solved here. There are measures, we have proposed them. The adopted amendments to the EC do not solve the problems that the Constitutional Court pointed out in the partial cancellation. Six days after the elections were scheduled, we changed the election rules. This contradicts all democratic standards for holding fair elections. This was stated to BNT by Nadezhda Yordanova from “We Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria”.
“The amendments to the Constitution in the part on the judiciary – the recipe that we gave, and then was canceled, actually turns out to be the right recipe. Looking at the situation, don't we need serious changes? I think that the Constitutional Court did not make a good judgment here. We proposed that the Prosecutor General should not be so omnipotent, and that the prosecutorial college should also have more democratic accountability and transparency“, she reminded.
“We have an acting Prosecutor General who refuses to implement the law, who says that he will not comply with the court's opinion. This is a real problem, disciplinary punishment is needed and if he continues to persist, he has no place in the judicial system“, Yordanova is categorical.
She announced that work will be done to elect a new SJC under new rules – who to nominate, how to vet candidates: “We will work to form a majority that will elect honest people, professionals, neutrals.”
She specified that in order to have guarantees for fair elections, there must be a prime minister who is not connected to Peevski and Borisov, and the only possible one was Gyurov: “When I watched the hearing yesterday and saw the Secretary General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I became afraid for the state. Thank God he is already a former minister, he became one too late.”
“From the first day we have been insisting that the “Petrohan“ tragedy be investigated objectively, that all information be provided. We have nothing to worry about. I continue to ask why information is being hidden, including yesterday when the National Assembly refused to oblige the National Security Service to provide all the information“, she also emphasized.“