President Rumen Radev signed a decree dismissing Ivan Geshev from the post of Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Presidency press secretariat reported on Thursday evening.
After some nine hours of deliberations Monday, the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) voted to dismiss Prosecutor General Geshev for undermining the prestige of the judiciary by calling politicians in Parliament “political trash”. The motion for Geshev's removal was made by four members of the Prosecutors Chamber and was backed by 16 votes with four voting against it.
Most of the debate and vote on the removal motion took place in Geshev's absence as he left the SJC sitting early on Monday to fly to Strasbourg for a European Parliament hearing.
Geshev was elected to be Bulgaria's top prosecutor for a seven-year term in office in 2019.
Within a week, the SJC Plenum must open a new procedure for the election of a prosecutor general.
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