Andrey Yankulov: We cannot expect stronger resistance inside the Prosecutor’s Office

Andrey Yankulov from the ACF team commented on the allegations of the Prosecutor General that, in fact, he has no power over prosecutors as follows: “It is absolutely clear to anyone who has good knowledge of the criminal justice system that specific cases are reported to the Prosecutor General, maybe not daily, but quite often. Prosecutors who monitor the cases visit him and report and inform him how the specific investigations progress. However, Andrei Yankulov also drew attention to some mild forms of internal dissent and silent resistance among a significant percentage of prosecutors in the system. According to him, examples of this are the many prosecutors who did not vote and the tenfold increase in the number of invalid ballots in the election of a new member of the Supreme Judicial Council by the Prosecutorial College Evgeni Ivanov. With the established institutional culture of subordination in the Prosecutor’s Office, it is difficult to have stronger forms of open resistance, Yankulov said.