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Three successive attempts failed to achieve a quorum for the September 27 sitting of Bulgaria’s Parliament, which was scheduled to debate and vote on a motion for the resignation of […]
ince the Bulgarian Socialist Party government came to power in May 2013, opposition leader and former prime minister Boiko Borissov seems to have spent more effort on walking out of […]
The second attempt at holding the debate in Parliament on opposition party GERB’s motion of no confidence in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government resulted in further controversy amid disputes over […]
Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, was scheduled to begin debate on September 25 on the first motion of no confidence in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government, tabled by centre-right […]
Autumn came to Bulgaria on the night of September 22 2013, at the close of a weekend that had seen a scattering of political developments billed as new but familiar […]
Bulgaria’s opposition party GERB will table the motion of no confidence in the current government on September 19, but instead of making it about the Cabinet’s “overall policy”, it will […]
Boiko Borissov’s centre-right party GERB – the largest single party in Parliament but also the opposition – is to table a motion of no confidence in the current government over […]
Anti-government protests demanding the immediate resignation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party administration reached their 80th day on September 1, with a new opinion poll showing the largest single share of […]
Bulgaria’s National Assembly will hold a special sitting in the week beginning August 12, interrupting its month-long summer recess, to discuss the veto imposed by President Rossen Plevneliev on key […]
A controversial rapper who has been a vocal leader of the daily gatherings of about 100 people in support of the embattled Bulgarian Socialist Party government used an anti-Semitic slur […]
