The mechanism for investigating the prosecutor general will be adopted by the next National Assembly, said caretaker Justice Minister Krum Zarkov at a briefing on Tuesday. He stressed that it became clear today that there are not enough members of the current Parliament who are willing to adopt a law introducing a mechanism for investigating the prosecutor general. "I say “willing” because it was never a question of time," Zarkov said.
A similar position was shared today from the rostrum in Parliament in a declaration of Continue the Change.
Referring to an accusation by GERB that he had exerted pressure on this National Assembly to adopt the draft law on amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code regulating the investigation of the Prosecutor General, Zarkov replied that this was true. "I have been pressing as an MP, as a protester, in the last month I have been pressing as a minister and I will continue to press until our country becomes a real state under the rule of law, a state where no one is above the law," he said, adding that without pressure, it will not happen.
The bill, he said, will be passed because it is important for Bulgarian citizens and because the next National Assembly will be forced to consider and pass it. Asked by whom the next parliament will be forced, Minister Zarkov replied, "by the voters, by the absolute need to solve an issue that has been weighing on all our necks for too long". The Justice Minister also expressed his belief that the next National Assembly will be different and there the forces that want reform will prevail.
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