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The European Parliament rejected the president’s amendments in the resolution on the rule of law, the fight against corruption and freedom of the media in Bulgaria, which will finally be voted on this afternoon in the plenary hall in Brussels, BNT reported.
The amendment proposed by the European People’s Party said the president was using the protests as a platform to express his own views. The text on the links of the presidential advisers with foreign intelligence services and the government’s decision to expel the diplomats, who allegedly transmitted information to third countries as a state secret, was also not adopted.
The text on Vasil Bozhkov, whose case was described without mentioning his name and claiming that he was financing the ongoing protests, was withdrawn by the petitioner, Maltese MEP Roberta Mezzo, yesterday before the vote.
The text of the resolution also includes texts related to the Istanbul Convention, in which the EP regrets that it has not been adopted and asks for its ratification. IMRO’s Angel Djambazki wanted them removed.
The resolution added text proposed by Romania’s Renew Europe MEP, Ramona Strugaru, who called on Bulgaria to investigate the revelations in the US Financial Crimes Network of money laundering and link to the financing of organized crime and The terrorism “.
The resolution is expected to finally be voted on this afternoon. The results will be clear after 5:30 p.m. Bulgaria.
Sofia, Bulgaria
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