"I cannot comment if the number of pardoned criminals is big or small, as there are no grounds for comparison," Borislav Tsekov, the head of the Sofia-based Institute of Modern Politics think tank, told SETimes. "The bigger issue here concerns the criteria on which those decisions were based, in view of doubts that not all (convicts) were pardoned on the basis of some social or health considerations."
„Ne mogu da komentarišem da li je broj pomilovanih kriminalaca veliki ili mali, jer nema osnova za poređenje“, kaže za SETimes Borislav Cekov, šef sofijskog tink-tenka Institut moderne politike. „Značajnije pitanje odnosi se na kriterijume na kojima su bile zasnovane te odluke, u svetlu sumnji da nisu svi (osuđenici) pomilovani na osnovu nekih socijalnih ili zdravstvenih pitanja.“