Strike three on day three of Bulgaria’s parliamentary ‘no confidence’ drama
Three successive attempts failed to achieve a quorum for the September 27 sitting of Bulgaria’s Parliament, which was scheduled to
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Boiko Borissov
Will Boiko’s boycott tactics spoil his own future?
ince the Bulgarian Socialist Party government came to power in May 2013, opposition leader and former prime minister Boiko Borissov
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Another day of debacle and disputes in Bulgaria’s no-confidence ‘debate’
The second attempt at holding the debate in Parliament on opposition party GERB’s motion of no confidence in the Bulgarian
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Bulgarian Parliament sitting to debate no-confidence motion scuttled by lack of quorum
Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, was scheduled to begin debate on September 25 on the first motion of no
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Bulgarian autumn and the ‘new’ political forces
Autumn came to Bulgaria on the night of September 22 2013, at the close of a weekend that had seen
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Bulgaria’s GERB rethinks no-confidence motion topic
Bulgaria’s opposition party GERB will table the motion of no confidence in the current government on September 19, but instead
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Borissov’s GERB to table no-confidence motion over cabinet’s ‘overall policy’
Boiko Borissov’s centre-right party GERB – the largest single party in Parliament but also the opposition – is to table
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As Bulgarian anti-government protests reach 80th day, poll shows increasing disapproval of government
Anti-government protests demanding the immediate resignation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party administration reached their 80th day on September 1, with
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Bulgarian Parliament’s summer recess to be interrupted to discuss presidential veto of budget amendments
Bulgaria’s National Assembly will hold a special sitting in the week beginning August 12, interrupting its month-long summer recess, to
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