site.btaARF Expect Vote of No Confidence to Succeed

Alliance for Rights and Freedoms (ARF) Floor Leader Hayri Sadakov told journalists in Parliament on Friday that the party expects the vote of no confidence in the Government to succeed because there are sufficient grounds for it. On Tuesday, Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC–DB) announced that they will submit a no-confidence motion over the Cabinet's economic policy on Friday. 

Sadakov stressed that his entire parliamentary group has signed as co-sponsors of the motion and the MPs are convinced this is the right move, given the nationwide coverage of the protests in Bulgaria against the Government's policies.

MP Hasan Ademov of ARF said that even if the vote fails, "the genie is out of the bottle and there can be no turning back." According to Ademov, the question is not whether the Government will fall, but when.

Regarding GERB-UDF's intention to adopt the 2026 state budget before the year's end, Ademov pointed out that people must remember what the ruling party said, namely that this budget was the only possible one. He added that the ruling majority also claimed that a new budget could be adopted by March, but it now seems that the intention is to do so by New Year's Eve.

Ademov explained that Bulgarian citizens most often protest when they feel their finances are being affected. According to him, this wave of protests arose because the proposed budget hit Bulgarian citizens hard in the pocket. The MP said that the ruling party must listen to the protesters.