Bulgaria‘s President Rumen Radev warned police and prosecutors of widespread electoral fraud, pointing to problems in investigating vote-buying schemes ahead of parliamentary elections, according to Euractiv.
What is important for a society to show that it is truly democratic is fairness, and fairness means, first of all, an equal approach by law enforcement authorities to all those who have broken the law, not just some of them.
Over the past two months, Bulgaria‘s anti-corruption commission arrested several people close to the leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Ahmed Dogan.
A few days ago, the pro-European Yes Bulgaria party handed over to police and prosecutors more than 200 specific names of “big vote-buyers” across the country who they claimed were linked to the US-sanctioned lawmaker Delyan Peevski.
Former Yes Bulgaria MP Ivaylo Mirchev publicly stated that the dependence of the prosecutor’s office and the Interior Ministry on Peevski was “obvious.” MEP and ALDE co-chair Ilhan Kyuchyuk also said that Bulgaria was witnessing an “open instrumentalisation of state institutions in favour of one party – Delyan Peevski’s New Beginning.”
