site.btaBulgarian Judges Association Demands Resignation of Entire Supreme Judicial Council

Sofia, June 23 (BTA) - The Bulgarian Judges Association (BJA)
has demanded the resignation of the entire Supreme Judicial
Council (SJC). In a letter to SJC's plenum, BJA lists a series
of reasons for the demanded resignation.

Among the reasons, the BJA states "SJC's responsibility for the
election of a prosecutor general whose moral and professional
qualities had been questioned even before his election to the
post," "instances of reputational damage of the justice,
including on the part of the Prosecutor General and the Justice
Minister concerning allegations about anti-constitutional
influence on appointment decisions in respect of court
presidents".

BJA argues that the SJC has not shown in the slightest that it
has the will and competence to engage in an open and earnest
discussion about the actual measurement indicators of the
independence of the judicial power. NV/ZH