Rule of Law - Only When It Gets Hot

Novinite Insider » EDITORIAL | Author: Margarita Stoyancheva |May 12, 2007, Saturday // 00:00
Bulgaria: Rule of Law - Only When It Gets Hot Photo by Nadya Kotseva (Sofia Photo Agency)

This week legal authorities in Bulgaria have been quick to react to the dynamic criminal situation in the country in what they believe is a proof of doing their work the best they can.

The prosecutor's office is interrogating time and time again witnesses on the undoubtedly noisiest affair - the money laundering in Sofia heating utility Toplofikatsiya. The court gave a three-year jail sentence to the MP-paedophiliac with one blow, although he belonged to the group of the untouchable. To top it all off, the police made it clear it is spreading itself thin to find the shooter, who took the life of a municipal councillor.

I am sure these efforts will not remain fruitless as - an adage says - hard work is always being awarded.

Is this diligence, however, a result of pure conscientiousness or is it just the wish to wash the rivals' dirty linen in public just before the most significant event in Bulgaria-EU epos - the MEP elections?

The extra incentive for the men in power to bustle about is the fact that Bulgaria is looking forward to a crucial EU report on its progress.

And this can be denied.

Despite the tenacious efforts of politicians to convince us that the advance is quite obvious.

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