The National Assembly will go into a one-month recess. The last plenary sittings will be held on October 5 and 6. The MPs will return to Parliament on November 8, after the second round of the local elections (the local elections will be held on..
Lawmakers have set up a temporary committee to examine all the facts and circumstances related to the security of machine voting in the upcoming local elections on October 29. The proposal to set up the committee was made by the Bulgarian Socialist..
“The acts which crush human dignity, torture and inhuman treatment must be criminalised with amendments to the Criminal Code, and for them there must be severe punishment,” says Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva. Sadistic violence against a young..
Following a three-day discussion, Members of Parliament adopted the rules of organization and procedure of the National Assembly. The MPs approved the proposal by Vazrazhdane party which envisages that an additional monthly remuneration for..
At 10 AM today, the most senior member of parliament Vezhdi Rashidov from the coalition GERB/SDS will ring the bell of the 49 National Assembly of Bulgaria. Without any great expectations that this parliament – the 5 th in the space of two years of..
The names of the 240 new MPs who will take their seats in the 49 th National Assembly of Bulgaria are now known. What the time horizon of the new legislative body will be is still anyone’s guess. Six political formations entered the new parliament..
The Central Election Commission (CEC) officially announced the names of the deputies in the 49th National Assembly after April 2 elections. Before that, more than 20 candidates, who were elected in two constituencies at the same time, have..
The last project adopted at first reading by the Bulgarian parliament for 2022 is related to changes to the Law on Labor Migration, which would ease the possibilities for hiring highly-qualified foreigners through the so-called "Blue..
Approval rating of Bulgaria’s Parliament plummets to new low. Support for Bulgaria’s President, "We Continue the Change" party and "Democratic Bulgaria" coalition has decreased, data of the latest survey by Research Center Trend indicate. 9% of..
Bulgaria’s lawmakers voted at a second reading to keep the multimember constituency for expatriate voters. The MPs also rejected the proposal to raise from 40 to 100 the number of voter applications required for the opening of a polling station..
