site.btaContinue the Change Would "Back All Efforts" to Remove Parliament Chair Kiselova

The opposition party Continue the Change (CC) would "back all efforts" to remove Parliament Chair Nataliya Kiselova, CC leader Assen Vassilev told reporters in the corridors of Parliament. 

Earlier on Thursday Vazrazhdane said they are rallying support for a motion to remove Kiselova over her "systematic failure to fulfill her duties". 

For the second day in a row, the ruling parties have failed to secure a quorum in the National Assembly, said Asen Vassilev. “It’s starting to look a lot like the Oresharski government,” he added.

Plamen Oresharski's government (2013–2014) was short-lived and highly controversial, marked by mass protests and accusations of corruption, particularly after the appointment of Delyan Peevski to head the national security agency (which appointment was promptly reversed but not before it triggered large-scale protests). In Parliament, its ruling coalition of BSP and MRF operated without a stable majority and relied on informal support from Ataka, a nationalist party that often provided quorum but was not officially part of the coalition. This led to frequent quorum crises, legislative blockages, and growing political isolation. Oresharski handed his resignation on June 23, 2014.

Assen Vassilev said that his party "will not be the 'golden finger' of this government, because it is very harmful to Bulgarian citizens and must leave as soon as possible".

For the second consecutive day, Parliament can't secure quorum to hold sittings. The Chair of the National Assembly, Natalia Kiselova, closed today’s sitting after a second failed attempt to proceed with the scheduled agenda.

“I’ve been warning for a year now that there are problems with implementing the measures under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP),” said Asen Vassilev.

"Those obstructing the funding for Bulgarian citizens are [GERB leader Boyko] Borissov and [Delyan] Peevski — because they are holding Blagomir Kotsev as a political prisoner and have prevented, for a second year, the appointment of a politically independent anti-corruption commission,” the MP commented.

"In Bulgaria, with the media of ‘Big D’ [a reference to Delyan Peevski], they may succeed in pulling the wool over people’s eyes, but clearly that doesn’t work in Brussels. ALDE (the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe), which expelled Peevski’s MRF and knows exactly what kind of creature he is, says there are political prisoners in Europe. We don’t need to explain to ALDE who Peevski is — they know very well. Three years ago, we set a condition: for us to join ALDE, they had to expel Peevski’s MRF. They spent three years investigating who Peevski is. West of Kalotina, Peevski is ‘Mr. Nobody,’" Vassilev added.