One of the last sittings of the newly-formed Bulgarian Parliament started with a scandal on Friday morning. For more than an hour, lawmakers failed to agree on a work agenda for the day. The deputies were dismissed during a break after the MPs from the..
The number of polling stations abroad will be unlimited, the parliament has finally voted. After a re-vote that GERB called for, the votes "in favour" were 117, while 107 abstained and 8 were against the change. The amendment was..
President of the National Assembly Iva Miteva convened an extraordinary plenary sitting today, after yesterday MPs of GERB, MRF and BSP did not approve the weekly program of the parliament and the sitting lasted for a total of 10..
Ten minutes after the start of today’s sitting, the National Assembly failed to approve its weekly programme. The MPs were supposed to discuss amendments to the Political Parties Act and to the Election Code. 86 members of parliament voted “for”..
The composition of the Central Election Commission should be reduced from 20 to 15 people. This was decided by the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs during the second vote on the bill that could amend the Electoral Code. The..
A new move on the political board has set off new probability theories in the political game of cabinet formation. Even before President Rumen Radev has had the chance of announcing when he would be handing an exploratory mandate for the..
MPs have approved the establishment of an Interim Committee with the purpose to check for abuses in the spending of funds by the government of Boyko Borissov, ministries, state bodies and state enterprises. 214 MPs, including MPs of..
In accordance with the constitution, on Monday, 19 April, President Rumen Radev is to hold consultations with representatives of the parliamentary groups in the 45 th National Assembly before handing a mandate for the formation of a government to..
After lengthy procedural disputes, the National Assembly accepted the resignation of the third government led by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. The decision was taken by 156 votes in favour. There were no votes against the..
With 163 votes in favor and 75 abstentions, the National Assembly elected Iva Miteva-Rupcheva of "There I s S uch a P eople" (ITN) as chair of the 45th National Assembly. Only GERB-UDF MPs abstained. The other..
