“Hadn’t been elected I wouldn’t have become less clever, so now I do not consider myself more clever, as well. The only thing I want to do now, if there is television broadcasting, is to thank my mother, because I am the person I am because of her.”, That was the first statement that Georgi Angelvo, the new judge at the Constitutional court, made, only several minutes after his election.
Mr. Angelov also thanked to everybody that have voted for him, emphasizing that he was an independent candidate “because it was import there were real election, without any preliminary arrangements”. He stated that he was his own nominee, he didn’t belong to anybody but to his mind and that was the explanation he had for his election. “I do not consider judges unwise and do not think they don’t know what it is about. I was almost sure that it was to happen that way. There might have been some dependent candidates, but I was not one of them. I played to the written rules”, he also mentioned.
On the question what he thinks about the procedure itself and how he would comment on the claims of the Bulgarian Institute for Legal Initiatives that some better procedural rules are needed as well as more time for debates on the nominees, judge Angelov said that such an opinion seemed a bit exaggerated to him, because the law did not prescribe neither candidacies to be announced in advance, nor any public hearings to be done. Georgi Angelov refused to comment whether the so called “gentleman agreement” between the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Supreme Administrative Court really exists.