site.btaMPs Adopt Five Bills of Amendments to Election Code on First Reading

Parliament adopted five bills of amendments to the Election Code at first reading on Wednesday. The one by Kostadin Kostadinov from Vazrazhdane gathered 171 votes in favour, 45 were against, one MP abstained. The bill submitted by Toshko Yordanov of There is Such A People (TISP) was supported by 202 MPs, 8 were against, 9 abstained. The amendments, proposed by Atanas Zafirov of BSP-United Left received 200 votes in favour, 3 against, 15 MPs abstained. A total of 174 MPs voted in favour of the bill to amend and supplement the Election Code, submitted by Nadezhda Yordanova of Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), 37 voted against and 9 abstained. The bill of CC-DB's Kiril Petkov received 172 votes in favour, 39 against and 6 abstained.