A turn in the plenary hall - the parliament forbade the Supreme Judicial Council with an expired mandate to elect the three big ones in the judiciary (the Prosecutor General and the chairmen of the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) and the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC), Nova TV reported.
The text proposed by Petar Petrov and Tsveta Rangelova from “Vazrazhdane“ in the Law on the Judiciary was adopted on second reading with 208 votes “for“ and 29 “against“ (from “DPS-New Beginning“).
The Plenum of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) can make a proposal to the President of the Republic of Bulgaria for the appointment and dismissal of the President of the Supreme Court of Cassation, the President of the Supreme Administrative Court and the Prosecutor General, and only elected members whose mandate has not expired by the date of the proposal or decision-making may participate in the vote, the deputies wrote into the law.
The idea of introducing a double majority for the election of the Presidents of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Supreme Administrative Court was rejected. The proposal of Alexander Rashev and Nikoleta Kuzmanova from “There is such a people“ to drop this text from the amendments was supported by 174 deputies in the plenary hall, 54 were “against“ and one abstained.