From: kaygee@hardy.u.washington.edu (Kevin Giansante)
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Subject: RFE/RL December 30
Date: 30 Dec 1992 16:34:01 GMT
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                   RFE/RL Daily Report

                                       No. 249, 30 December 1992


BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO FREE LUKANOV.  Nearly six months
after the arrest of Andrey Lukanov, former prime minister and
prominent member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, the Bulgarian
National Assembly voted to set him free, BTA reports.  Late on 29
December the parliament partially repealed a previous decision,
taken on 7 July, to lift Lukanov's parliamentary immunity and
arrest him.  Although the Constitution precludes the restoration
of Lukanov's immunity, on 30 December Duma quoted his lawyer that
Lukanov plans to return directly to parliament. He could be freed
through an agreement between the BSP and the mainly Turkish
Movement for Rights and Freedoms.  (Kjell Engelbrekt, RFE/RL,
Inc.)

UDF EXCLUDES DISSENTING ORGANIZATIONS. Meanwhile, on 29 December
the UDF National Coordinating Council expelled two of the
coalition's member organizations, BTA reports. The Alternative
Social Liberal Party and the Union of Free Democrats were forced
to leave after refusing to distance themselves from the attempt
to form a government by Lyuben Berov, an MRF nominee.  Whereas
the UDF leadership has categorically rejected participation in
Berov's cabinet, several prominent ASLP members have been
mentioned as likely candidates for key ministerial posts. Reuters
reports that some 20,000 UDF sympathizers demonstrated in the
evening in Sofia to express support for their leaders and calling
for new elections. (Kjell Engelbrekt, RFE/RL, Inc.)


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