Kiril Petkov gave up his Parliamentary Immunity

The co-chairman of "We Continue the Change" Kiril Petkov renounces his parliamentary immunity. He announced this himself on Facebook, specifying that the replacement of Ivan Geshev with Borislav Sarafov is an imitation of judicial reform.

Sarafov himself made it clear earlier in the day that he is inclined to withdraw the requests for the giving up of the parliamentary protection of Boyko Borissov and Kiril Petkov, because his predecessor Geshev became more active with the cases against the two, after he saw himself threatened by the politicians because of the adopted mechanism for controlling the Prosecutor General.

However, according to Kiril Petkov, this is not the way in which an objective and transparent examination of the facts should be conducted on each of the requests.

This is what Kiril Petkov wrote on Facebook:

"Replacing Geshev with Sarafov is an imitation. This is not a judicial reform.

Mr. Sarafov's request for a revision of the submitted requests for the removal of the parliamentary immunity is not the way in which an objective and transparent examination of the facts of each of the requests should be conducted. If he withdraws the requests, Sarafov will hinder the publicity provided by the temporary immunity commission, and the cases could once again end up 'in limbo'.

Today I decided to give up my immunity because I do not want to rely on the illegitimate appointment of Mr. Sarafov to decide whether or not to withdraw my immunity request.

At the same time, I got acquainted with the documents submitted to the parliament, as I hope all other people's representatives did, and I came across the following facts, precisely because of which we wanted to make the temporary...