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Bulgarian MPs are working Wednesday on second reading of amendments to the Social Assistance Act. File photo
The Members of the Bulgarian Parliament voted Wednesday to have ten days off for Easter.
The Easter break starts Friday, April 13 and will last until April 23rd thus Thursday of this week is their last work day.
The proposal was submitted by MPs from the ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, and presented by the Deputy Chair of GERB's Parliamentary group and Chair of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, Iskra Fidosova.
The MPs are working Wednesday on second reading of amendments to the Social Assistance Act.
GERB also proposed to postpone the no-confidence vote against their cabinet for after the Easter break, Fidosova told journalists.
The vote was submitted by the opposition left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, and the far-right, nationalist Ataka over the scrapping of the project to build jointly with Russia a second nuclear power plant in the Danube town of Belene and overall failures of policies in the energy sector.
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