http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/d8a3bc24d193f86e https://verfassungsblog.de/bulgaria-chief-prosecutor-interim/ The Perpetual Interim - Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor Without a Mandate Katchaounova, Adela eng 2026-02-06 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Bulgaria Chief Prosecutor European Union Supreme Court of Cassation Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor has been exercising power without a valid mandate since 2023, even after the Supreme Court explicitly declared his authority expired. What looks like a technical impasse reveals a subtler form of constitutional erosion: power entrenching itself through interim arrangements, procedural improvisation, and cultivated legal uncertainty. The Bulgarian case shows how institutional capture can advance quietly, without open defiance, constitutional rupture, or triggering the EU’s usual rule-of-law alarms.