Bulgarian MPs have elected Nikola Minchev of “We Continue the Change” as President of the 47th National Assembly. He was supported by 158 votes. Minchev is a lawyer and specialist in procedural law with many years of experience.
57 out of a total of 240 MPs are women. This is the Bulgarian parliament with the lowest number of female MPs in recent history. The average age of MPs is just over 40. The most numerous are the professional groups of lawyers - 38 and economists - 31. There are also 13 doctors in the new parliament.
The signing of a coalition governance agreement between the 4 negotiating parties has been postponed for next week. President Rumen Rasdev announced that consultations on forming a government would start on December 6th.
Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov described the vote of no confidence in the government over its foreign policy, debates on which are currently being held in the National Assembly, as an attempt to sow discord between the parties in..
“When we deal with diplomacy, we must deal with facts and the official truth,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Georgiev said during the debates in the National Assembly on the vote of no confidence in the government due to failure..
The program for humanitarian assistance to displaced persons from Ukraine has been extended by a month, the government press service reported. During this time, humanitarian assistance will continue to be provided to Ukrainian..
Partial state of emergency on the territory of the municipality of Varna is in effect until April 6 due to a fuel oil spill in the Black Sea, which has..
Protests will take place in front of the court houses in Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv, Burgas and Stara Zagora against pedophilia and crimes against children...
Only 5% of prisoners in Bulgaria find work after serving their sentence . According to the Varna-based Altruist Association, quoted by BNT, 75% return to..
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