Bulgarian President Slams Cabinet for Failure to Fight Graft
- Radev calls for radical action against corruption in new law
- Lack of convictions, graft deter investors, president says
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Bulgarian President Rumen Radev criticized the government of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov for failing to reduce crime and graft in the European Union’s poorest state, which has forced people in small towns to “live in fear.”
The perception of widespread corruption and the judiciary’s failure to convict senior officials drives away foreign investors, Radev said in an interview with Nova television in Sofia late on Wednesday. He pressed for radical action against crime in a new anti-corruption law, two drafts of which were put up for public discussion by Borissov’s Gerb party and the opposition Socialists.