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The chances of electing a Speaker of the 51st National Assembly are minimal

| updated on 11/27/24 1:17 PM
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The members of Parliament are rather skeptical before yet another attempt to elect a National Assembly Speaker. The candidates for Speaker of the National Assembly are Raya Nazaryan from GERB-SDS, Natalia Kiselova from BSP-United Left, Petar Petrov from Vazrazhdane and Silvi Kirilov from There is Such a People (ITN).

However, the positions of the parties in Parliament remain unchanged. Upon entering the National Assembly, Radostin Vasilev from MECH commented that it would be best to go to new elections and not to waste time. In response to Boyko Borissov's statement that he did not need a "wrecked state", Radostin Vasilev urged the leader of GERB not to run in elections.

Borislav Gutsanov from BSP-United Left was more optimistic and expressed confidence that a workable solution would be found. He called for a wise approach based on dialogue. A similar stance was taken by Hasan Ademov from the Alliance for Rights and Freedoms (APS), who stated that the way out of the crisis is to elect a Speaker of the National Assembly, after which the MPs can begin their work. However, his party-mate Ramadan Atalay was more pessimistic and pointed out that unless the model of political bias is changed, the results of the next elections will be the same.

Iskra Mihaylova from Vazrazhdane said that the Speaker of the National Assembly must be someone distant from GERB and DPS. According to her, the possibility of Silvi Kirilov being in a runoff means that the Parliament has the opportunity to begin its work, but BSP and Democratic Bulgaria cannot make a decision. She noted that there is currently a mathematical majority that can isolate GERB and DPS, so ''it is irresponsible not to elect a National Assembly Speaker''.

In Parliament, GERB leader Boyko Borissov told journalists that the GERB-SDS will submit questions to the Constitutional Court.  Borissov specified that one of the questions is about the rights of deputies and the other - whether the Supreme Judicial Council with an expired mandate can conduct a procedure for the election of a new prosecutor general and chairman of the Supreme Administrative Court.
Borissov stressed that only after the Constitutional Court and the jurists have ruled, he will sign the declaration proposed by "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria" for a "sanitary cordon" around Delyan Peevski and his formation.
 After the sixth consecutive vote at the first session of the National Assembly, which has already lasted two weeks, again no chairman was elected and the deputies went into recess.



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