Lustration in Bulgaria inconsistent

The new parliament in Bulgaria has begun its work by adopting a new regulation with a so-called lustration clause governing the appointment of members to parliamentary committees. The daily Sega complains that this clause is inconsistent: "It is scarcely a month since the new parliament was constituted and already it is getting ... entangled. Having voted not to allow any representatives of the former communist secret services to head committees, the assembly has taken the surprising decision to refuse to screen members of the committees controlling and supervising the work of the Interior Ministry and the secret services to find out whether they worked for the former state security service. ... And this despite the fact that Bulgaria for many years suffered precisely because of the links between the public administration, the secret services and the Interior Ministry."

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