As the National Assembly started its work today, tensions immediately started running high. Ugly scenes followed a declaration read out by the leader of the nationalist Vazrazdahe party Kostadin Kostadinov, who called the supporters of the government, protesting in front of parliament building “sorosoids”, who want to organize a “Maidan”.
In response, the Bulgarian Socialist Party stated that people saw the nationalist Vazrazdahe voting together with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF. After that the MPs from the opposition MRF and the lead party from the ruling coalition We Continue the Change exchanged words and started pushing and shoving each other, but other members of parliament broke it up.
Meanwhile, one more MP from There Is Such a People party (ITN) which broke away from the ruling coalition, Kiril Simeonov announced he was leaving ITN and would be an independent MP.
A total of 60 officers from the Bezmer and Kabile units are on the ground with equipment for firefighting, Bulgaria's Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov told bTV. About 440 personnel, in 15 formations in southern Bulgaria and seven formations in..
For the seventh day now the efforts to put down wildfires in the area of the border municipality of Bolyarovo, near the border with Turkey, continues . There is no danger to settlements, but the outbreaks between the villages of Voden and Golyam Dervent..
At 11.00 a.m. today, President Rumen Radev will hand over a mandate to form a government to the candidate for prime minister, nominated by the second largest parliamentary group in the 50th National Assembly - that of "We Continue the Change-Democratic..
On Sunday a cold front will sweep across the country from West to East. There will be clouds and, in the afternoon, brief showers, thunderstorms and..
“For us this election has to be the last for the coming years. No more compromises with the people, with society or with the political system should..
Bulgaria ranks 10 th in Europe, and 25 th in the world in wine production, Sophie Pallas, director of the International Organisation of Vine and..
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