Bulgarian prime minister is mentioned in one in every three media releases, followed by the finance minister and the president, who also shine in the media spotlight, a survey shows. A media analysis of seven national daily newspapers, launched by the Laboratory for Media Monitoring of the Media Democracy Foundation, has shown that Prime Minister Borisov [...]
Bulgaria’s parliamentarians have tabled a draft decision to proceed with the impeachment of the President, Georgi Parvanov. A total of 162 MPs declared they were in favor of the motion tabled by the ruling GERB party. Support for the move came from the far right Ataka party, the Blue Coalition and from independent MPs from [...]
Bulgaria’s rightist Blue Coalition declared they would not support changes in the Parliamentary code, requested by the conservative leader, Yane Yanev. Yanev, from the Order, Law and Justice (RZS) party wants to reduce the required minimum of Members of the Parliament from one party to form a parliamentary group from 10 to 8. The declaration [...]
The Order, Law and Justice (RZS) party had requested from Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, that the party’s parliamentary group is restored by 9 am Wednesday. The RZS leader informed Monday he had a meeting with Borisov at the Council of Ministers building and had firmly asked the PM if his ruling Citizens for European Development [...]
The Bulgarian conservative party RZS (“Order, Law, Justice”) no longer has a parliamentary group as a result of the decision of one its members to leave it. MP Mario Tagarinski deposited Friday afternoon his declaration to the Parliamentary Chair Tsetska Tsacheva that he was leaving the RZS group. Thus, the group of the conservatives chaired [...]
Shortly after 2 am Thursday morning and after 16 hours of debate the Bulgarian Parliament finally adopted the 2010 budget. Bulgaria Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov stated after the vote that “this is a good budget, the only one possible for 2010.” Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said that everyone wants a budget with more money, more [...]
Two Crown Agents contracts with the Bulgarian Customs Agency have been declassified and published Monday on the Ministry of Finance web site. The contracts made between the Bulgarian government and private consulting company Crown Agents, relate to consultancies in 2001 and 2004. According to Yanev, these contracts are worth more than BGN 70 M. He [...]
The Order, Law and Justice party (RZS) has called for declassification of the three contracts with the company consulting Bulgaria’s Customs Agency, the private Crown Agents, according to party leader Yane Yanev. Yanev asked how much money the “agents of the crown” received, and for what services. He pointed out that two of the contracts [...]
The Bulgarian conservative party “Order, Law, Justice” (RZS) is launching a campaign to demand a new Constitution. The campaign, which is entitled “65 Years Are Enough. We Want a Grand National Assembly, a New Constitution, a New State”, starts on November 8, 2009. “Bulgaria must do away once and for all with the post-communist mafia [...]
The conservative “Order, Law and Justice” Party (RZS) has called for the Bulgarian Ambassador to the UK, Lyubomir Kyuchukov, to be removed from his position. The RZS MP, Dimitar Chukarski, Chairman of the parliament foreign affairs commission, read a statement from his party blaming Kyuchukov for violations in his position as Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister [...]
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