Bulgaria’s Prosecutor General involved Peevski and Borissov in the Debate about his Removal

For the first time since the beginning of the procedure for his removal, the prosecutor general also included the name of the MP from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) Delyan Peevski. This happened before the beginning of the session of the Supreme Judicial Council, where the discussion of the request for the early termination of his mandate continues. It was submitted by four members of the Prosecutor's College, according to whom Ivan Geshev damaged the prestige of the judiciary by using the expression "political garbage" in relation to the people's representatives.

New evidentiary requests awaited the court officers, who sat on the subject for more than 14 hours on Thursday. They were imported on Friday afternoon, explained Justice Minister Atanas Slavov. Geshev and his defense insisted on two special examinations to establish whether there was actual damage to the prestige of the judiciary. The first, to measure the trust in it after May 15, when this expression was uttered, and the second - "etymologically - linguistically", to establish what is the lexical and grammatical meaning of the words in the expression "political garbage"

However, with 16 to 5 votes, the Supreme Judicial Council rejected the request for sociological expertise, and with 17 to 4 votes, rejected the request for the opinion of a linguist and etymologist.

Upon entering the Supreme Judicial Council, the chief prosecutor made a short statement - an address to the Bulgarian magistrates, expressing concern for them, after an assassination attempt was made against him, and now he is the subject of an "attempt to remove him from office":

"From my assassination attempt to a politically staged attempt to remove me, in...