Last sitting of Bulgaria’s 47th National Assembly

Bulgaria’s 47th National Assembly held its last sitting on July 29.

From August 1, the MPs go on summer recess, and next week the President is expected to issue a decree to dissolve the Parliament after "BSP for Bulgaria" returned the third cabinet-forming mandate unfulfilled.

The last hour of the National Assembly's work will be devoted to final declarations, which will be broadcast live on BNT 1.

The 47th Parliament worked fir eight months, with its first sitting on December 3 last year.

The plenary sitting was constructive, dynamic and tension-free, despite the fact that additional agenda items were inserted early in the day.

However, this was not the situation on the sidelines, where sparks were flying along the “We Continue the Change” - GERB - UDF axis.

The bone of contention is how to resolve the issue of road maintenance. It came to this after the earlier announced meeting of Regional Policy Committee in the National Assembly did not take place because GERB-UDF and MRF did not show up. Its chairman, Nastimir Ananiev, accused the opposition of not wanting to resolve the issue of paying the funds for road maintenance and future care of the roads.

He had put on the agenda an extension of the deadline of road annexes, which expire on September 30.

"I made several attempts to get the regional committee together but to no avail. We wanted to get together, to pay the honest companies. This is irresponsible behaviour. This is grave political hypocrisy on the part of GERB, MRF and the chamber of road builders," Ananiev said.

"The political impotent Nastimir Ananiev is faking activism. To pay 100% to their companies and nothing to the rest. Impotent attempt to convene the committee. There is no road maintenance and the roads are crumbling. There is not a single kilometre of road build during their term in office. This is the change," said Nikolai Nankov.

MPs managed to pass amendments to the Health Act providing for banning the sale of laughing gas to minors.

The National Assembly passed at the first reading amendments to the Law on Spatial Planning, according to which special permits and licenses for the construction of small photovoltaic plants for own needs up to 10 kilowatts will be abolished.

Images by Dessislava Kulelieva

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