Bulgarian president rejects appointment of new chief prosecutor

In late October, the body in charge of judicial appointments, the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), approved 48-year-old Deputy Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev for a seven-year term as the country’s new top prosecutor. Thirty years after the fall of communism, the Chief Prosecutor in Bulgaria is still a figure largely immune from any control, critics saying that nothing had changed in this respect since Stalinism.The President, who according to Constitution had to sign off the Chief Prosecutor’s appointment, said that a lack of competition in the procedure had undermined the candidate’s legitimacy.
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