Bulgaria: The Judicial Reform will Sink if the Cabinet Collapses

Judicial reform, a topic created by the ruling coalition half a year ago, is likely to be the biggest victim of its collapse. It (despite public arguments) is one of the reasons for the most serious shock in power. A change in the configuration of government (in this Parliament or after early elections) will at least delay even urgent or delayed changes, without which the patterns of dependence and influence in the judiciary will continue.

For one of the major goals of the current government - changing the anti-corruption commission to an effective structure - a bill was introduced only after the government was left with only three parties.

Five days after Slavi Trifonov announced that his "There Is Such a People" party is leaving the coalition, finding a majority to pass laws related to even urgent changes in the system now seems impossible. The result - the judicial council, whose resignation was demanded by the ruling coalition, will extend its term at least until next year, and judicial inspectors - who expired two years ago - will remain in office, the Constitutional Court will not be filled as parliament did not elect two members from its quota.

The request to strengthen the control over the powers and supervision over the Prosecutor General remains unmoved - a topic on which a working group at the Ministry of Justice prepared a bill, which according to Justice Minister Nadezhda Yordanova was to be submitted by the end of June.

And the day after it became known that the coalition is already threefold, a draft of a new law on the anti-corruption commission was quickly submitted to parliament, work on which "We Continue the Change" points to the coalition's problems as a symbol. There is now a proposal for change,...