The Majority Should Take the President's Powers
31.03.2010Interview with Stefan Popov
Mediapool, 31 March, 2010
The prosecution must be removed from the judiciary. Even the small children have probably unserstood this by now. RiskMonitor's Executive Director Stefan Popov commented on the recent hype surrounding the Presidential Institution and the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) in an interview for the Mediapool online magazine. Only when such a change is made can the SJC be treated as the administrative authority of the court itself. The idea that the three institutions can be managed together becomes increasingly implausible. Changes in the body which manages a fundamentally confused structure will not lead to anything.
The majority in the nassional Assembly has to risk and provoke the Constitutional Court with a law that clearly contradicts to the latter's decision of 2003 referring to the Grand National Assembly. In this way it will determine whether this Consrtitutional Court would be willing to reaffirm it. As it is public opinion that it is absurd to think of the Grand National Assembly as the barrier for changes, it is possible for a more daring law to make the court withdraw from its previous decision. For this purpose, the law itself should be well supported publicly and it should be reasonable, but not some eccentric measure.
Full text of the interview (in Bulgarian)
