Bulgaria’s National Assembly overrode President Radev’s veto on amendments to the Judicial System Act. 131 MPs voted in favor, 47 MPs voted against and 6 MPs abstained. The Bulgarian Socialist Party and “Vazrazhdane” voted against and “There is Such a..
Bulgaria’s National Assembly will hold an extraordinary session today. MPs will vote at first reading amendments to the Criminal Code and the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence. A new discussion of the Law on Supplements to the Judicial..
A protest under the motto: “Not a single woman more; changes to the law, now!” is taking place in front of the National Assembly as the MPs from the legal affairs committee are entering the building. The committee is to hold a meeting today to approve..
MPs will interrupt their summer vacation in order to adopt changes to the Criminal Code and the Domestic Violence Protection Act. On August 3, the legal committee will hold an extraordinary meeting, while an extraordinary plenary..
President Rumen Radev has signed a decree for returning the changes to the Judiciary System Act, adopted on July 21, 2023, for a new discussion in the National Assembly. The changes envisage that instead of randomly selecting a..
The National Assembly has finally adopted the state budget after a 21-hour-long parliamentary sitting , which ended today at 5:41 a.m. The budget has been prepared on the basis of macroeconomic indicators of 1.8% economic growth and..
The majority intends to submit in the coming days a general bill to amend and supplement the Constitution, said at the beginning of the first meeting of the parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs its chairman Radomir Cholakov from GERB-SDS...
Constitutional Court will hear the case on the Parliament's resolution that rejects the holding of a national referendum on the euro changeover. The proposal of the referendum was to keep the Bulgarian lev as the only official currency until 2043. The..
The website of the Bulgarian National Assembly which was down late last night, is now online, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports, quoting Minister of e-Government Alexander Yolovski. An investigation is ongoing into the source of the hacker..
Three months after its start, the 49th National Assembly elected the chairs of 22 out of 25 parliamentary standing committees. The largest number of committees, 14, will be chaired by GERB-SDS, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) - 5, and We..
