The caretaker cabinet with PM Grancharova-Kozhareva could be sworn in at an extraordinary sitting of the National Assembly on Tuesday, Yordan Tsonev who is chairing the parliamentary sitting stated: “There will probably be an extraordinary sitting on Tuesday, 20 August, for the new caretaker cabinet to be sworn in, if the president issues a decree for that,” he said. As of 16 August, the 50th National Assembly is in summer recess. The next regular sitting is scheduled for 4 September. For the snap election for parliament to be held on 20 October, the new caretaker cabinet has to be sworn in at the National Assembly no later than 20 August. The 50th National Assembly started functioning on 19 June. The MPs had a total of 40 work days during which they held 23 sittings. The MPs are expected to have 8 more sittings at most, because on 20 September parliament should take a pre-election recess.
Doctors and nurses from the country's 12 state-run psychiatric hospitals have staged a protest outside the Ministry of Health, demanding a higher pay rise than that included in the new budget. The protesters briefly blocked traffic on the boulevard in..
Fifty-seven per cent of Bulgarians are in favour of including religious education in the compulsory school curriculum , according to a survey by Trend. 26% are against the idea. Support is lower than average among the youngest and higher among the..
The MECH party has its own parliamentary group again. It was restored after MPs adopted the draft resolution of ITN with 170 votes “for”, 1 “against”, and two abstained. Earlier today, two new MECH MPs took the oath in the..
Thursday will be mostly cloudy with rain and east-northeasterly winds , increasing in the Danube plain and the Upper Thracian lowlands. Minimum..
On the initiative of Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger is visiting Bulgaria to look for cooperation projects with the..
"On behalf of the state, we declare war on the property mafia." This was announced at a press conference by Justice Minister Georgi Georgiev. He said that..
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