Bulgaria's third attempt to elect a parliamentary speaker fails: risk of early elections increases
Kyiv • UNN
The third attempt to elect the speaker of the 51st National Assembly of Bulgaria failed due to the lack of a majority. Without a speaker, the parliament cannot function, which increases the risk of early elections.
Due to the lack of a majority of votes to elect a speaker, the work of the Bulgarian parliament is blocked.
Writes UNN with reference to bntnews.
Last week, the third attempt to elect a speaker of the newly elected 51st National Assembly of Bulgaria failed. A break was announced, and the session will resume next Wednesday, November 20. The parliament cannot function without a speaker. But the speaker of the parliament may be appointed by the future prime minister if Bulgaria goes to the polls again this winter. For the past eight months, Dimitar Glavchev, a former member of former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's GERB party, has been interim prime minister. The latter, for his part, has spoken of a possible coalition with the PP-DB, the pro-Russian Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), and the populist party “There is such a people.
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The election of the Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria is key to the functioning of the body, the formation of parliamentary groups and the President's consultations to form a regular government.
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The conservative GERB party of Boyko Borissov won 26.3% of the vote in the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria. The Continuum Chimbarea-Democratic Bulgaria came in second with 14.79% of the vote.
