23.04.2009 2 Members of Bulgaria\'s Election Body Exposed as State Security Collaborators A month ahead of the European elections in Bulgaria, a special panel, investigating the country\'s communist-era police files, released the names of agents and collaborators of the former secret police, who are members of the central electoral commission.
According to the information published on the website of the so called Files Commission, two members of the election body have been collaborators and agents from the secret police of the former communist regime. These are Alexander Urumov from \"Forward\" political movement and Rumen Elenski from the quota of the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
The Files Commission has probed the past of twenty-three members of the Central Electoral Commission set up for the elections for members of European Parliament, which Bulgaria will hold on June 7.
The files of the former Committee for State Security are a thorny issue in Bulgaria, especially when it comes to the past of high-ranking officials.
Bulgaria\'s communist-era security service is believed to have remained potent after the fall of communism with the ex-operatives closely linked to the political and business establishment. |