“I believe that on September 23 the Bulgarian parliament will adopt the draft bill on amendments to the Constitution on first reading and thus allow making further changes until the second-reading adoption,” said Tsetska Tsacheva, Chairperson of the Bulgarian National Assembly, speaking for bTV.

Asked whether the mandate-holder Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (CEDB) will consider it a failure for the party, if the constitutional amendments are not adopted by the parliament, Ms Tsacheva said: “Yes, it will be a failure for all of us since only the constitutional amendments will allow us achieve the effect we want in the judicial system.”

According to Tsetska Tsacheva, the anti-corruption bill proposed by Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva would be adopted by the parliament, too. In her words, eventually there will be agreement on the disputable items.