"Anna Politkovskaya" Keeps Pressure on Bulgarian President

Politics | August 13, 2007, Monday // 00:00
Bulgaria: "Anna Politkovskaya" Keeps Pressure on Bulgarian President Protestors in front of the presidency hold posters, reading "A president who lies is a humiliation for the country" and "We depend on a president, who is a threat to the national security". Photo by Kameliya Atanasova (Sofia Photo Agency)

A civil organization, named after the murdered Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, staged a second rally on Monday demanding the resignation of President Georgi Parvanov.

The protest is a response to recent revelations of the president past as collaborator of the Communist-era secret services. The Anna Politkovskaya association for free speech say in other Eastern European EU member such a scandalous revelation would have brought about immediate consequences, the lack of which is shameful for Bulgaria.

The association has launched a sign-up for citizens to support them in their quest for justice.

In July the body in charge of secret files made public the dossier of Georgi Parvanov, making it clear that the president was recruited in 1989 with the First Chief Directorate of the Security Services and worked under the nickname of Gotse.

The black list featured also another twenty officials from the presidential administrations, not only headed by Parvanov, but also by his predecessors Petar Stoyanov and Zhelyu Zhelev.

Under Bulgaria's constitution the president of the country can be removed from his post only if he is accused of high treason.

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