site.btaDraft Resolution Withdrawing 2026 Budgets on Parliament’s Wednesday Agenda

The draft resolution, proposing to give consent for the withdrawal of the 2026 State Budget Bill, National Health Insurance Fund Budget Bill, and the Public Social Insurance Budget Bill, is scheduled as the third item for Wednesday’s Parliament agenda published on the National Assembly’s website on Tuesday. The motion is submitted by MPs from the three ruling parties - GERB-UDF, BSP-United Left, and There Is Such a People.

The Council of Ministers, at an absentia meeting on Tuesday, decided to propose that the National Assembly adopt a resolution to withdraw the three budget bills. This action requires a parliamentary decision, as the budgets have already been approved in the first reading, the Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov explained to the media after a meeting of the Joint Governance Council.

Following a decision by Parliament, the Cabinet will launch a new budget procedure.

On Monday evening, tens of thousands of citizens took to the streets in Sofia and major regional centres across Bulgaria to protest the adoption of the 2026 State Budget Bill. Protests were held in Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas, Ruse, Pleven, Stara Zagora, Lovech, Veliko Tarnovo, Dobrich, Blagoevgrad, Sliven, Shumen and Yambol. Protesters in Sofia were heard chanting "Resignation!", apparently calling on the government to resign.