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The Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) requests from the administration office of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria to provide information on the existence of a decree, issued during the second mandate of Mr. Purvanov, by which the vice-president Mr Angel Marin is empowered to decree the acquisition and deprivation of Bulgarian citizenship and to exercise the right to pardon.
In case there is no such decree issued during that period, the court insists on an explicit statement in that regard.

Mrs. Margarita Popova commented on the recent scandal provoked by the Mr. Tsvetanov s accusations against Mrs. Miroslava Todorova, the Chair of the Bulgarian Judges Association which claimed that she had deliberately postponed a case against organized crime.

The public statements ofthe Minister of InteriorMr. Tsvetan Tsvetanov and the behavior of the members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) seem to imply to judges that conformism and silence are the only path to successful career development.

The new Presidents of the administrative courts in Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas and Veliko Turnovo were elected by the SJC on January 19, 2012. BILI prepared profiles of all candidates.

Suddenly Tsoni Tsonev decided to withdraw from the Inspectorate to the Supreme Judicial Council. His motive: "My name is tainted!"

As a result of the instantaneous reaction of BILI to mobilize the civil sector, the EC responded on a press briefing today that the Commission has received the latter and it follows very carefully the on-going procedure, its position being more than clear that such nominations are to be undertaken fully respecting transparency and the integrity of the process.

Being Mr. Nobody is a short documentary video, produced by BILI Foundation within the regional project Partnership for Roma Protection and Prevention.

Attorney Hristo Ivanov in an interview before Capital.bg is discussing the actual issues and events in the delicate sphere of judiciary and judicial reform.

In result of the information provided by BILI yesterday at a round table organised in Varna, it became clear that an unknown number of the poorest citizens who cannot provide a valid address registration are refused the issuance of IDs.

A Round table in Varna indicated the severity of the problems of Roma people deprived of their right to be issued personal IDs because they do not comply with the legal requirement to present an ownership act or rent agreement

As part of a monitoring project organized by the Bulgarian institute for Legal Initiatives, Mrs. Sheril Loesch-a clerk of court for the Middle District of Florida, was invited on a regular session of the SJC Committee on Professional qualification, IT and statistics (the IT Committee) to discuss the electronic systems used for random case assignment and the implementation of adequate and objective caseload criteria.

Dilyana Angelova, Staff Attorney in the Roma Protection, Prevention andPromotion project, shares her opinion on the importance of providingall people with formal legal recognition as a measure in the fightagainst discrimination, social exclusion and poverty.