Bulgaria's Parliament holds extraordinary sitting

The National Assembly will hold an extraordinary sitting today, 21^st of August, at 13:00 to hear Prime Minister Boyko Borissov about the problems with the Commercial Register and to discuss the case of bankruptcy of the Cypriot insurance company "Olympic". The sitting is held following a motion filed by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party.

Two weeks earlier, the summer vacation of the MPs was suspended. The first working day was scheduled to be on 4^th of September, but because of the extraordinary circumstances, the Socialist party demanded an extraordinary sitting.

The required forum for holding the sitting is 121 MPs.

Thebankruptcy of the Cyprus-registered insurance company Olympic left some 200,000 Bulgarians holding compulsory third party liability insurance from it without coverage and in need of signing new insurance contracts.

There was a crash in the Commercial Register system for several days from 10th of August due to a technical
malfunction. Partial operation was restored on 15th of August.