Bulgaria: parliament overturns veto on anti-corruption
A special unit to investigate public officials will be created
12 January, 16:46The European Commission has repeatedly rebuked Bulgaria for failing to prosecute and sentence allegedly corrupt officials.
The motion to overrule the veto was passed by 146 votes in the 240-seat parliament, bringing together lawmakers from the ruling center-right GERB party, allies in the nationalist United Patriots formation and opposition deputies from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms and Volya. The Socialists voted against.
(ANSA).