Bulgaria's Justice Minister quits after judicial reform plan rejected by Parliament

By Reuters , 10 December 2015
Bulgaria's outgoing Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov (photo credit: BGNES)
Bulgaria's outgoing Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov (photo credit: BGNES)
<p>Bulgarian Justice Minister Hristo Ivanov resigned on Wednesday after parliament watered down changes to the constitution in a vote which he said would prevent genuine reforms to the country's graft-prone and inefficient judiciary.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 20.4px;">Hours after Prime Minister Boiko Borisov accepted Ivanov's resignation, a couple of hundred people protested and blocked roads in Sofia. Most had taken part in anti-graft demonstrations that felled a previous Borisov government in 2013.</span></p>
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