LUSTRACIJA NA BUGARSKI NAČIN
Three judges in Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court have asked the Constitutional Court to rule on a vital clause in 2006 legislation that enables the Dossier Commission to publicly identify people who were agents and collaborators with the country’s communist-era secret services. Those in favour of the Dossier Commission process that has enabled the exposure of hundreds of former State Security agents and collaborators in fields from the diplomatic corps to government, media and the church are concerned that the process could be scuppered by an unfavourable ruling by the Constitutional Court. Article 25, clause three of the law governing the commission allows the identification of people who were involved with former State Security and Bulgarian People’s Army intelligence services on the basis of registry log entries without the need for the evidence of documents directly signed by them agreeing to work for the secret services. This provision takes account of large...
