Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee has approved in first reading draft amendments to the Judicial System Act that would end the current procedure for electing a new Prosecutor General. The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) will not be able to elect..
After thousands of people and hundreds of towns and villages were left without electricity for a week , in a statement to the media, the leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) -New Beginning Delyan Prevski called for the..
Even if the National Assembly fails to pass a law to extend this year's budget, there is no legal obstacle to the payment of pensions to more than 2 million pensioners. Provisions in the Social Security Code regulate pension payments in the event of a..
The National Assembly is holding a hearing of Minister of Agriculture and Food Georgi Tahov and Bulgarian Food Safety Director Svetlozar Patarinski over the sheep plague outbreak in Velingrad. The laboratory in Montpellier confirms the presence..
Alarming data on the state of water resources and access to water for domestic use and irrigation were presented at a hearing in the National Assembly on the problems of water scarcity in the country. The Minister of Environment and Water, Petar..
Even before the election of the regular committees, the Parliament decided to set up an ad hoc committee to find out all the facts and circumstances of the drought problems in the country. The decision was taken unanimously with 203 votes in favour. The..
Democratic Bulgaria has issued a position stating that an attempt must be made to form a government within the current parliament so as to avoid one more early election and a further deepening of the crisis of parliamentary democracy...
Dragomir Stoynev, an MP from the BSP-United Left coalition, told BNR that the election of the parliamentary speaker was an agreement between political forces to stabilise the political situation. On 6 December, St Nicholas' Day, the 51st National..
After finally succeeding in electing a Speaker of the 51st National Assembly - Natalia Kiselova, proposed by the BSP - United Left, MPs voted en bloc for the appointment of 7 Deputy Speakers of the 51st National Assembly. They were elected with 202..
The draft budget for 2025 will be submitted by the caretaker government to the National Assembly at the end of next week , Finance Minister Lyudmila Petkova said. The draft includes a planned deficit of 3%, or BGN6 billion (about EUR3 billion)...
