Bulgaria’s Parliament Passed the Anticorruption Law

Bulgaria’s Parliament on 20 December adopted at second reading all the texts of the new law on anticorruption and asset forfeiture.

The law provides for establishing a single anti-corruption body - the Commission for Counteracting Corruption and Forfeiture of Illegally Acquired Property.

The management of the commission will be elected by the National Assembly. The Commission will not consider anonymous alerts.

The members of the Commission will undergo an integrity check aimed at establishing that the person subject to the check performs his or her professional duties honestly in compliance with the Constitution and the laws of the country and to the interest of citizens and society.

The Chair of GERB Parliamentary Committee and Internal Security and Public Order Committee Tsvetan Tsvetanov thanked all MPs for the adopted law and expressed confidence that it will lead to greater effectiveness in the fight against corruption, meeet the expectations and needs of voters and of the EC recommendations.

Krum Zarqov from opposition BSP stressed that results were needed. “We will be here and in a few months we will ask where they are,” he said.