11/03/2010

Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov is facing possible impeachment for disclosing the contents of a recent conversation with Finance Minister Simeon Djankov.

(Euobserver, Sofia News Agency, 24 Chasa, Standart, Nine O’clock - 11/03/10; AP, DPA, Sofia News agency, The Sofia Echo, Dnevnik.bg, Mediapool, Hurriyet - 10/03/10)
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The ruling GERB party wants to impeach President Georgi Parvanov. [Getty Images]

Bulgaria’s ruling centre-right GERB party said on Wednesday (March 10th) that it will initiate steps to impeach leftist President Georgi Parvanov for publishing the transcript of a closed-door meeting with Finance Minister Simeon Djankov.

Djankov, who went to the president’s office on March 5th to clarify controversial remarks he made about Parvanov on a TV talk show five days earlier, was not informed that the contents of the conversation would be made public, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s party said.

Moreover, the finance minister was not even aware that the discussion was being recorded.

By doing this, Parvanov violated Article 32, paragraph 2 of the Bulgarian Constitution, GERB’s executive board said in a statement issued late Tuesday.

“No one shall be followed, photographed, filmed, recorded or subjected to any other similar activity without his knowledge or despite his express disapproval, except when such actions are permitted by law,” the article reads.

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