Bulgaria's parliamentary opposition is submitting Monday the third no-confidence vote against the cabinet of the center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, party.

The vote is to be submitted with the administration of the Parliament.

The opposition, led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the centrist ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) have initiated a no confidence vote over the failure in internal and home affairs of the Interior Ministry and the delay in joining the Schengen Area, originally planned for March 2011.

The right-wing Blue Coalition, which used to back the Borisov Cabinet, has declared it will support a no confidence vote over what it regards as personal failures of Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov. The conservative Order, Law and Justice Party, RZS, is also backing the vote.

The far-right, nationalist Ataka, which was GERB's strongest ally since the latter's victory in the July 2009 general elections, recently officially declared they are now against GERB. Nevertheless, the nationalists will stand on the side of the cabinet in the upcoming vote.

In order for the vote to pass, 121 Members of the Parliament (half of all 240 plus 1) have to vote for. GERB has 117 MPs. The dozen of independent MPs, who left RZS, Ataka and the Blue Coalition have declared they will vote against, giving GERB the comfort of over 130 votes.

This is the third no-confidence vote against the cabinet of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, submitted by the opposition. The first one was over the failure of policies in the health care sector; the second, in June 2011 – failure in the anti-crisis policy.

At the beginning of 2011, Borisov asked the Parliament for a confidence vote on the overall policies of the cabinet and the MPs passed it.

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