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Bulgaria’s top judicial body has failed to elect a chief prosecutor of the capital Sofia.
Three candidates – Vanya Ilieva and Boyko Atanassov from the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office and Rusi Alexiev from the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office – had applied for the job.
However, none of them succeeded in gathering the necessary 13 votes in the Supreme Judicial Council on Thursday.
The vacancy opened after the disciplinary dismissal of Nikolay Kokinov by the Supreme Judicial Council due to a scandalous wiretap leak.
On July 11, the Supreme Judicial Council dismissed Kokinov from the judicial system over leaked recordings of a wiretapped conversation between him, former Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov, and former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
During the meeting, Borisov is informed by Kokinov about the results of probes by the prosecuting authority before they have been officially announced.
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