The Prosecution College of the Supreme Judicial Council proposes to elect a new chief prosecutor on January 16, 2025.< /p>
This will happen if the council plenum resumes the procedure for electing a new prosecutor general and approves the date.
There has been no regularly appointed chief prosecutor for more than a year. On June 12, 2023, the Supreme Judicial Council released Ivan Geshev.
The first session of the SJC on Geshev's removal lasted 14 hours. It was attended by Deputy Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov, Deputy Director of the NSLS Yasen Todorov, Marcela Pantaleeva, Senior Expert Public Communication Directorate. to the Attorney General's Office.
On June 16 last year, Borislav Sarafov, who was then deputy chief prosecutor and director of the National Investigation Service, was appointed by the SJC as acting chief prosecutor.