“There is no other such country, which has such a personnel so prepared, which all of a sudden is deprived of investigating severe crimes,” Deputy Justice Minister Boiko Rashkov said in the morning show of Nova Television, commenting on ideas to restore of some of the functions of investigation services.

Those who had negotiated with the European Commission (EC) in the past, had not given strong enough arguments to the EC experts. And this was why the EC had included in its previous reports the sentence that any increased powers of the investigative services would be considered a violation of Bulgaria's pre-accession agreement, Rashkov said.


Kostadin Paskalev, mayor of the south-western town of Blagoevgrad from the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), told private broadcaster bTV that President Georgi Purvanov had made launched concrete actions to remove Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev.

“This happens without any discussions,” Paskalev said.

“After making several serious mistakes in public, Purvanov is bound to make many more similar mistakes,” Paskalev said.

Moves towards the dismissal of Stanishev were not limited to the BSP, but made “at the level of national political life.”

"The EC noted that Bulgaria would need a hurricane to sweep away its rotten political system,” Paskalev said.