The Bulgarian conservative Order, Law and Justice (RZS) party has opposed the statement of the Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, that a special tribunal will start operating by mid-2011.

RZS has issued a statement, saying that the special tribunal, which will try mafia bosses and high-level corruption, could not begin functioning by the middle of the year before all legislative amendments regulating its activity are fully adopted.

“We are certain it will work only on information that has already been collected via special intelligence devices by Tsvetanov against his opponents within and outside the circles of the ruling party GERB. This is not a special tribunal, but rather a guillotine for a political mob,” the RZS statement said.

The conservatives have announced that before the final adoption of the legislative amendments for the special tribunal, RZS will insist on the creation of a special parliamentary committee in connection to unauthorized eavesdropping.

The committee is envisioned to establish the MPs, ministers, deputy ministers, agency heads, senior police officials, agents from the State Agency for National Security, magistrates, journalists and businessmen have been tapped, followed, filmed and photographed in 2010 without their knowledge and in violation of the law, the party has explained.

“RZS has a reason to believe that the serious political-police paranoia, which has possessed Tsvetan Tsvetanov, must be stopped as soon as possible. In the new year, as citizens, we have to stop the militia arbitrariness and to remove the obstacles that led to the non-admission of Bulgaria into the Schengen Area, for which the interior minister and the contraband channels he is leading are to blame,” the party said.

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