Yoncheva: The BSP Congress was ashamed and directed

“The hearing will give the new Bulgarian government and the chief prosecutor an opportunity to present their plans on how to get out of the crisis in which GERB plunged Bulgaria into the rule of law. The hearing is important because the European Commission links member state funding to compliance. of the rule of law “.

This was said to BNR by MEP Elena Yoncheva, who as a member of the European Parliament’s Democracy Monitoring Group at the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) will meet with Bulgarian officials on the judiciary and the Prosecutor General’s accountability. She said that according to preliminary information, the Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, the Minister of Justice Nadezhda Yordanova, the Minister of Culture Atanas Atanasov, the Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev will be in the hall.

“The hearing will be in the monitoring group of LIBE (Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs), an influential group of 14 people – two from each political family. The hearing will be on January 27 behind closed doors … We decided in The group will not just give the invited guests the opportunity to present pre-prepared positions, but to answer questions clarifying on the move – to what extent judicial reform will be in line with the recommendations of the Venice Commission, whether the reform will not be limited to personal changes, what is the responsibility of the chief prosecutor, how to counter corruption at the highest levels of government “.

In the show “Sunday 150” Yoncheva commented on the BSP Congress and the remaining Cornelia Ninova in the leadership position:

“The congress was shameful and directed, threw the BSP into the category of marginal parties. The congress had nothing to do with reality. At the congress we did not receive an answer to the question why we lost the trust of 800,000 people. The responsibility is not collective “The topic of corruption was not raised. The Bulgarians lost confidence in the BSP leader because they did not show a fight against corruption, but only a simulation. The battle against Borissov was simulated by Ninova.”

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