Bulgarian Govt 'Fires' Dismissed Judge from 1 More Position

Politics » DOMESTIC | July 13, 2012, Friday // 16:51
Bulgaria: Bulgarian Govt 'Fires' Dismissed Judge from 1 More Position Judge Miroslava Todorova, Chair of the BJA, was dismissed Thursday by the Supreme Judicial Council over unreasonable delays of proceedings. Photo by BGNES

The Bulgarian government's press office erroneously stated that Judge Miroslava Todorova has been fired as Chair of the Bulgarian Judges Association.

In a press release informing about Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's statement on Todorova's controversial dismissal as Sofia City Court judge, the press office claimed she was no longer was Chair of the Judges Association, Mediapool has observed.

The error was later corrected.

Todorova, who gained reputation as the strongest critic of the Supreme Judicial Council and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, was dismissed Thursday by the Supreme Judicial Council VSS on disciplinary grounds (unreasonable delay of proceedings).

"This is a provocation against the huge effort we are making to improve Bulgaria's image and to reform the judicial system," Borisov commented on Thursday.

Todorova already filed a libel lawsuit against Tsvetanov with the Sofia Regional Court in the beginning of February, after two consecutive interviews of the Interior Minister in which he accused her of incompetence and of patronizing organized crime because of the delayed presentation of the written motives to an eight-year jail sentence handed down to drug lord Vasil Manikatov.

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Tags: Boyko Borisov, judge, Miroslava Todorova, dismissed, Supreme Judicial Council, VSS, Interior Minister, Bulgarian Judges Association, libel, Sofia City Court

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