No-Confidence Vote Canceled, Bulgarian Ruling Party Says

Politics » DOMESTIC | April 19, 2012, Thursday // 15:52
Bulgaria: No-Confidence Vote Canceled, Bulgarian Ruling Party Says Bulgarian Parliamentary Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva. Photo by BGNES

The planned no-confidence vote against Bulgaria's ruling centrist-right GERB will not take place, according to Parliamentary Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva.

The no-confidence motion was submitted by Ataka and left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) on April 6 over what the two parties perceive as GERB's failed energy policy. At the end of March, the GERB government decided to scrap the Belene Nuclear Power Plant, a project backed by the two aforementioned parties.

On Thursday, however, Ataka decided to withdraw its signatures from the no-confidence motion. Thus, only 40 MPs, 39 lawmakers from BSP and one independent. Georgi Terziyski. The bare minimum for a no-confidence motion is 48 signatures (20% of all MPs), according to the Bulgarian constitution.

A sitting of the Bulgarian Parliament will take place on Monday as planned, but if there are no constitutional grounds for a no-confidence debate to take place, it will be canceled, Tsacheva explained on Thursday.

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Tags: Ataka, Bulgarian Socialist Party, GERB, no confidence vote, Belene, Nuclear Power Plant

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