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Parliament voting on new government of Bulgaria ends

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The Bulgarian National Assembly has elected GERB leader Boyko Borisov for Prime Minister of Bulgaria and accepted the structure and composition of the new coalition cabinet proposed by him. Out of the 233 MPs who took part in the voting, 134 MPs from GERB, United Patriots Coalition, Volya, and an independent MP voted in favour of the new cabinet. The BSP and the DPS parties were against. In the vote on the structure of the cabinet, 134 voted for, 101 against, and there was no one to abstain.



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