Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council removed the Prosecutor General in his absence

The Plenum of the Supreme Judicial Council released Ivan Geshev for actions that harmed the authority of the judiciary and proposed to the President to issue a decree for his early dismissal from office.

This was decided by the SJC with 16 votes "for" and 4 "against" after more than 9 hours of debates yesterday and 14 hours of deliberations last Thursday. And the occasion is the words of the prosecutor: "It is clear who is the political trash in the National Assembly and it must be swept away", uttered on May 15, when he demonstratively tore off his resignation.

The judicial personnel decided to continue the proceedings in the absence of the chief prosecutor by 13 "for" against 7 "against" at 1:20 p.m. Ivan Geshev left the SJC meeting and went to Strasbourg for a meeting with LIBE. His lawyer Radostina Tomova also left with him. An hour and a half later, an attempt was made to re-vote the decision, but it did not gather support from the members of the SJC.

Sevdalin Mavrov announced that the Constitution had been violated and left the meeting.

"I am concerned about the visibility," said the president of the Supreme Court of Cassation, Galina Zakharova.

The SJC personnel then began a lengthy dispute over whether to listen to the May 22 recording of Geshev's meeting with SJC member Yordan Stoev at accuser #1's house and whether it is authentic and can be trusted. Stoev is one of the six people who requested Geshev's early removal due to the violation of his official duties in addition to the participation of the Israeli specialist in the inspection of the explosion with his car. Last Thursday, however, the six members of the Prosecution College surprisingly withdrew their request. Therefore, the SJC continues the...