The Bulgarian Socialist Party submitted a draft decision to remove the Immunity of Boyko Borissov

The chairman of Bulgarian Socialist Party Kornelia Ninova announced on the sidelines of parliament that the parliamentary group will submit a draft decision on removing the immunity of GERB leader Boyko Borissov. It was requested by chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev on June 2 in connection with a pre-trial proceeding, known in the media as "Barcelonagate", in which evidence of money laundering was gathered. Borissov, for his part, flatly refused to waive his immunity himself.

"The five-day period has expired and no one is doing anything. (...) Since he (Boyko Borissov) does not have the courage to give it himself, and the speaker of the parliament and the majority stomp the ball and hide it, we take the initiative to submit this project to a decision," Ninova explained, citing in support of her thesis the term specified in the rules of procedure for the work of parliament.

However, according to it, if a member of parliament does not waive his immunity himself, the request of the chief prosecutor and the data attached to it are considered by the National Assembly, which renders a decision no earlier than 5 days after the request is received, i.e. there is no deadline by which Parliament must make a decision.

The leader of the socialists added that BSP had become familiar with the practice of the parliament in the past to form a commission of inquiry for the removal of parliamentary immunity, but pointed out that then they were created with a term of between 3 and 7 days. Because of the leaked recordings of the meeting of "We Continue the Change", which talk about the formation of such, she admits that if there is now a proposal to create a temporary commission, it will be for a period of at least 6 months, in which "