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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200712-235220-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-general-prosecutor-unbound/ The General Prosecutor Unbound - The recent raiding of the President’s office shows how vulnerable the rule of law in Bulgaria is Petrova, Teodora eng 2020-07-12 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 President prosecutor Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 It is no secret that the rule of law in Bulgaria has been fragile for a long time, like in many other post-socialist states. Still, what has been going on in the last days in Bulgaria is extraordinary in a number of ways. It could be seen as an attack against the very constitutional foundations of the state. In this brief post, I will just focus on the last development concerning the disregard of the constitutional principle of the rule of law by one of the highest authorities in the state, namely the General Prosecutor.