Survey: GERB Set to Dominate Next Parliament with 80 Deputies, WCC-DB to Lose More Seats
The upcoming composition of the 50th National Assembly projects GERB to secure 80 seats, a slight increase from their current 69
The Bulgarian oppositional leftist Bulgarian Socialist Party and ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) will propose a no confidence vote against the country's ruling centrist-right GERB's minority government Friday.
The vote is provoked by what the opposition has perceived as failure of the internal security and public order policy, police brutality, violations of basic human rights, and delay in Bulgaria's joining of the Schengen zone.
Even though the vote is expected to be backed by all parliamentary groups except GERB, it is deemed highly unlikely to succeed, as nine lawmakers who dropped out of their parties of their parties over the course of the last two years and became independent, have declared their support for GERB.
Besides the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Movement for Rights on Freedoms, the rightist Blue Coalition, as well as several MPs from the marginal conservative Order, Law and Justice (RZS) have declared they will back the no confidence vote. Blue Coalition members, including co-chair Martin Dimitrov, have stated that Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov should leave his position as head of the ruling party's election campaign for the upcoming local and presidential votes, as they fear he is using his ministry as a propaganda tool.
However, GERB's 117 MPs together with the nine independent lawmakers constitute a formidable majority of at least 126 seats in the 240-seat parliament. GERB's former allies, the far-right Ataka formation, are yet to announce their position.
"GERB's parliamentary group stands unconditionally behind the Interior Minister," Valentin Nikolov, a GERB MP declared Wednesday, as cited by the Bulgarian National Radio.
On June 17, the cabinet of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and his ruling party, expectedly survived a no-confidence vote on the grounds of failure in the anti-crisis policy.
124 Members of the Parliament voted in support of the cabinet – they were from GERB and independent MPs.
The Blue Coalition, the far-right, nationalist Ataka, and the conservative Order, Law and Justice party, RZS, did not take part in the vote.
BSP and DPS collected 70 votes.
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