site.btaParliament Chair Discusses Planned No-Confidence Motion

National Assembly Chair Nataliya Kiselova said on Friday she is waiting to learn the topic of the no-confidence motion against the government which the opposition plans to submit at the start of the new political season. “Then, we will need to see how the debates will proceed because there are multiple aspects to the matter,” she commented to journalists. “On the one hand, Bulgaria is set to adopt a state budget which will be the first one denominated in euro, and a segment of the opposition will try to resist it. Another segment of the opposition, driven by a desire to set itself apart, is looking for other possible no-confidence topics.”

Kiselova gave a briefing in the seaside resort of Sozopol, where she attended the opening of the 41st Apollonia Festival of Arts.

Asked whether she sees in Maria Filipova a potential competitor for a hypothetical caretaker prime minister if she is elected deputy ombudsman, Kiselova said: “Are early elections coming up? I know of no such thing.”

She went on to say that the National Assembly, which will open its new session on September 3, has a few nominations to discuss early on for the Anti-Corruption Commission and for a new deputy ombudsman. Second-reading procedures for some laws are also pending.

Asked for comment on President Rumen Radev’s decree appointing Miroslav Rashkov as Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior, the parliament leader said it was part of a process of normalization of the functioning of the state as many government agencies had been operating beyond their terms in office.