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Thu, 2011-07-14 22:01
The ruling center-right GERB party was backed by the right-wing Blue Coalition in voting the Thursday measure. The opposition Socialist Party voted against saying it will challenge the law in the country’s Constitutional Court.
The government proposed the changes after a panel investigating communist-era police files published last December the names of 192 leading diplomats who worked for the former secret service. Parliament then voted to ask President Georgi Parvanov to remove from their posts 33 former spies now serving as ambassadors.
Parvanov, who himself was revealed in 2006 to have collaborated with the communist secret service, opposed the move, saying every case should be considered separately.
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