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.
After it became clear that the prospective cabinet would be backed by a coalition of GERB-SDS, There is Such a People and BSP, Premier-designate Rosen Zhelyazkov explained that the political responsibility would be shared by all participants in the..
President Rumen Radev handed over the first cabinet-forming mandate to Rosen Zhelyazkov, who was nominated by GERB-SDS for Prime Minister. "We appreciate the time you have given us. It was not wasted", said Rosen Zhelyazkov upon receiving the..
The National Assembly decided that only members of the Supreme Judicial Council with an unexpired term of office will elect the Prosecutor General and the Chairpersons of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Supreme Administrative Court. The text,..
Stabilising state finances will be the main task of the Finance Ministry, its new head Temenuzhka Petkova said at her inauguration as minister. The..
Two freight trains, moving on the same track between the Svetovrachene and Kremikovtsi railway stations near Sofia, caused the death of two people, as..
Two people were killed and five were injured in a head-on collision between two freight trains near Sofia, BNT reported. The trains collided near..
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