site.btaPro-Government, Opposition MPs on Planned No Confidence Motion

MPs of the pro-government majority and of the opposition on Wednesday commented on a no confidence motion planned to be entered in the coming days by the Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) Parliamentary Group.

He spoke to journalists on his way into the National Assembly for the opening of the new session.

"I will not allow anybody to shake this country," Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Chair and MRF-New Beginning Floor Leader Delyan Peevski told journalists, reacting to the news. He sees this initiative as part of the launch of a campaign for the 2026 presidential elections.

"I will make a lot of disclosures during this campaign, and I won't let anybody lie to the people, they'll get the whole truth," Peevski added.

Asked whether he will continue to back the cabinet, he said: "I will do so as long as they are doing the right things for the people. I share with them all remarks I have, and I believe they are being addressed." 

CC-DB MP Ivaylo Mirchev told the media on Wednesday morning that his parliamentary group, together with MECh and the Alliance for Rights and Freedoms, will table a motion of no confidence against the Government "as a bid to counter the state capture." The motion is targeted at "an oligarchic circle which block the functioning of Bulgaria and control particular people who are part of the country's governance." 

In his words, the only thing that can bring down the Cabinet is the will of MRF-New Beginning, and anyone can back the motion when it is put to a plenary vote.

Velichie will second the no confidence motion against the government, Floor Leader Ivelin Mihailov told journalists ahead of Parliament's opening. 

"We are convinced that any entity, whether an institution or a party, which declares itself in favour of early parliamentary elections, is either unable to grasp reality adequately in its reality or is serving only its ego and is pursuing self-seeking interests," said GERB-UDF MP Toma Bikov.

"The previous four no confidence votes showed the incompetence and disunity of the opposition with their untenable theses," There Is Such a People Deputy Floor Leader Stanislav Balabanov said. "All attempts so far have merely demonstrated the need of a stable government," he added.

BSP-United Left MP Dragomir Stoynev criticized recent no-confidence votes as "pointless," saying they had failed to provide solutions and only disrupted the legislature's work. "Today the majority and the responsible government are showing that there is a different path: of dialogue, cooperation and solutions," he added

During its little over nine months in office, the Rosen Zhelyazkov Cabinet has survived four no-confidence votes: one initiated by Vazrazhdane for "failure in the foreign policy sector", à second one, submitted by MECh, for "failure in the fight against corruption", a third one, entered by Vazrazhdane over the "government's fiscal policy failure" and backed by Velichie and MECh, and a fourth one, launched by Velichie and backed by MECh and Vazrazhdane, over a "failed policy in the environment and water sector".

In order to succeed, a motion of no confidence must be supported by at least one-half plus one of all 240 MPs, i.e. 121 votes. The ruling majority (GERB-UDF, TISP and BSP-United Left) together with MRF-New Beginning, have 131 seats altogether.