A Libyan court condemned to death December 19 the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. Photo by Middle-East-Online
Citizens from Bulgaria's seaside city of Varna have started gathering signatures in support of nominating the five Libya-jailed Bulgarian nurses as MEP candidates.
Officials from the Central Election Commission, however, have countered them explaining that the newly accepted MEP laws wouldn't even allow them to vote in those elections, let alone be nominees, the state radio announced.
The law states that only Bulgarians who have lived in the country or in a EU member state in the three months prior to the election would be able to vote. The five women have spent the past eight years jailed in a Libya jail and this prevents them from taking part in the upcoming May 20 elections. They have been accused of deliberately starting a HIV epidemic in the children's hospital ward in Benghazi.