site.btaFive NGOs Refuse to Participate in Procedure for Selecting New Counter-corruption Commission Head
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Five NGOs Refuse to Participate in Procedure for
Selecting New Counter-corruption Commission Head
Sofia, December 2 (BTA) - Five influential nongovernmental organizations refuse to participate in the selection procedure for a a new head of the Counter-corruption and Unlawfully Acquired Assets Forfeiture Commission (CUAAFC) and claim the
choice is predetermined. "This boycott is an unprecedented but unavoidable step towards exposing obvious smokescreens for decisions taken untransparently in advance," the NGOs say in a letter to the National Assembly Chair and the floor leaders.
The letter's signatories are the Anti-Corruption Fund, the Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights Foundation, the Bulgarian Institute for Legal Initiatives, the Institute for Market Economics, and the Access to Information Programme.
The Counter-corruption and Unlawfully Acquired Assets Forfeiture Act and the procedural rules for selecting a CUAAFC chief give non-profit legal entities the opportunity to present positions
that also include questions to the nominees.
The five NGOs say they will not use the opportunity given to them by the law. "Our many years of experience in studying and monitoring the processes in the Judiciary, the area of human
rights and the rule of law give us grounds to claim that the forthcoming selection of a CUAAFC Chairman is predetermined," the letter reads.
Two have been nominated to head the CUAAFC. One is outgoing Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov and the other is MP Simeon Naydenov. The latter was nominated by the small group of the Volya party
while the former has the support of the ruling GERB, the power-sharing nationalists, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms and some Socialists, making the prospect of somebody else taking the office very unlikely. LN/DS
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LN1917NW.114
114 HOME AFFAIRS - ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION - CHAIR
Five NGOs Refuse to Participate in Procedure for
Selecting New Counter-corruption Commission Head
Sofia, December 2 (BTA) - Five influential nongovernmental organizations refuse to participate in the selection procedure for a a new head of the Counter-corruption and Unlawfully Acquired Assets Forfeiture Commission (CUAAFC) and claim the
choice is predetermined. "This boycott is an unprecedented but unavoidable step towards exposing obvious smokescreens for decisions taken untransparently in advance," the NGOs say in a letter to the National Assembly Chair and the floor leaders.
The letter's signatories are the Anti-Corruption Fund, the Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights Foundation, the Bulgarian Institute for Legal Initiatives, the Institute for Market Economics, and the Access to Information Programme.
The Counter-corruption and Unlawfully Acquired Assets Forfeiture Act and the procedural rules for selecting a CUAAFC chief give non-profit legal entities the opportunity to present positions
that also include questions to the nominees.
The five NGOs say they will not use the opportunity given to them by the law. "Our many years of experience in studying and monitoring the processes in the Judiciary, the area of human
rights and the rule of law give us grounds to claim that the forthcoming selection of a CUAAFC Chairman is predetermined," the letter reads.
Two have been nominated to head the CUAAFC. One is outgoing Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov and the other is MP Simeon Naydenov. The latter was nominated by the small group of the Volya party
while the former has the support of the ruling GERB, the power-sharing nationalists, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms and some Socialists, making the prospect of somebody else taking the office very unlikely. LN/DS
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