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Volunteers from the Bulgaria for Citizens Movement staged a protest spectacle Thursday morning in front of the building of the Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) in Sofia. Photo by BGNES
Volunteers from the Bulgaria for Citizens Movement staged a protest spectacle Thursday morning in front of the building of the Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) in Sofia.
Bulgaria's top judicial body is to elect a new Chief Prosecutor at its Thursday sitting.
The young volunteers staged a "puppet magistratre(puppet theatre + magistrate)", insisting that the candidates for the post of Chief Prosecutor were string puppets controlled by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, and Iskra Fidosova, MP of center-right Ruling party GERB and Chair of the Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee.
The volunteers from the Bulgaria for Citizens Movement told journalists that the demonstration was against the electronic mode of voting and the fact that the candidates would be voted by order of submission of the bids with the VSS.
The protesters insisted that the outcome of the election had been predetermined and Bulgaria was witnessing a theatrical performance with marionette magistrates.
A short while after the show ended, police asked the volunteers to leave the site although they said they had been granted permission for the protest by the Sofia Municipality.
On Thursday, VSS is to elect Bulgaria's next Chief Prosecutor among Sotir Tsatsarov, head of the Plovdiv District Court, Galina Toneva, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, and Borislav Sarafov, head of the Specialized Appellate Prosecutor's Office.
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