Parliament elects outgoing Chief Prosecutor to head anti-corruption commission

On December 11, MPs voted to approve the outgoing Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov as the new head of the Anti-Corruption Commission. The other nomination was Simeon Naydenov from Volya Party.

Sotir Tsatsarov will resign as chief prosecutor. The law provides for two options: one is to wait until the end of his term, which means exactly 30 days - a period referred to in the law to clear the state of incompatibility, in which he falls as elected Chair of the anticorruption commission and Chief Prosecutor, which is the position he is currently occupying. However, in the interests of both institutions, Tsatsarov chose to resign.

The parties from the ruling coalition, GERB and United Patriots, on November 19 nominated Sotir Tsatsarov to head the anti-corruption and criminal asset forfeiture commission.

The office of the head of the anti-corruption commission has been vacant since July 31, 2019 when Plamen Georgiev’s resignation was accepted by Parliament.

After he left the anti-corruption commission, Georgiev was reinstated as prosecutor but shortly after that the government appointed him Bulgarian Consul in Valencia, Spain.