After a cold, lonely summer, Bulgaria's Members of Parliament are back to work.
Wednesday marked the first Parliamentary meeting in Bulgaria after the summer break, which began at the end of July.
The Bulgarian lawmakers have been enjoying nice long vacations for a while now, the voters are used to seeing their MP rest as much as only the country's schoolchildren can afford.
But the 2011 autumn parliamentary session may take even more than usual to kick off. With presidential and local elections just around the corner, Bulgarians fear the lawmakers from all political formations may be occupied exclusively with campaigning over the next two months.
Will Bulgaria's Parliament start actually working after October 23, the date for which the elections are scheduled, is the question on everyone's mind.