site.btaParliamentary Monitor: Friday
ESD 16:08:01 11-02-2022
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Parliamentary
Monitor:
Friday
Sofia, February 11 (BTA) - At its plenary sitting on Friday, Bulgaria's National Assembly transacted business as follows:
- Adopted on first reading Government-proposed amendments to the Corporate Income Tax Act, transposing rules of an EU directive.
- Heard declarations from the parliamentary groups of Continue the Change, BSP for Bulgaria and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) against the plans for holding the so-called Lukov March [a torchlit procession which has been taking place annually in February since 2003 to mark the anniversary of General Hristo Lukov's execution-style murder by two Communist militants. Lukov (1888-1943) was a popular military commander but was also known for his close links to the Third Reich and his activity as leader of the far-right Union of Bulgarian National Legions.]
- Heard a declaration from There Is Such a People (TISP), read by MP Andrey Tchorbanov, in memory of Prof. Luc Montagnier, the Nobel Prize-winning French discoverer of the HIV virus, who died on February 8. Tchorbanov noted the virologist's role in freeing six Bulgarian medics from Libya, who were falsely charged with infecting children there with HIV virus during Muammar Gaddafi's regime. "Largely thanks to Montagnier's efforts, the Bulgarian medics were acquitted and released," the MP recalled, noting that the French professor took a public stance against the restrictive measures introduced against the spread of COVID-19.
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The Vazrazhdane Party is preparing to stage a new protest against the green certificate requirements within ten days, the party's leader Kostadin Kostadinov said in Parliament, specifying that the date and form of the protest will be decided next week.
Kostadinov noted that his party will not agree to anything else but a lifting of the certificate requirement. RY/MY/LG
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LG1605ES.115
115 POLITICS - PARLIAMENT - MONITOR
Parliamentary
Monitor:
Friday
Sofia, February 11 (BTA) - At its plenary sitting on Friday, Bulgaria's National Assembly transacted business as follows:
- Adopted on first reading Government-proposed amendments to the Corporate Income Tax Act, transposing rules of an EU directive.
- Heard declarations from the parliamentary groups of Continue the Change, BSP for Bulgaria and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) against the plans for holding the so-called Lukov March [a torchlit procession which has been taking place annually in February since 2003 to mark the anniversary of General Hristo Lukov's execution-style murder by two Communist militants. Lukov (1888-1943) was a popular military commander but was also known for his close links to the Third Reich and his activity as leader of the far-right Union of Bulgarian National Legions.]
- Heard a declaration from There Is Such a People (TISP), read by MP Andrey Tchorbanov, in memory of Prof. Luc Montagnier, the Nobel Prize-winning French discoverer of the HIV virus, who died on February 8. Tchorbanov noted the virologist's role in freeing six Bulgarian medics from Libya, who were falsely charged with infecting children there with HIV virus during Muammar Gaddafi's regime. "Largely thanks to Montagnier's efforts, the Bulgarian medics were acquitted and released," the MP recalled, noting that the French professor took a public stance against the restrictive measures introduced against the spread of COVID-19.
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The Vazrazhdane Party is preparing to stage a new protest against the green certificate requirements within ten days, the party's leader Kostadin Kostadinov said in Parliament, specifying that the date and form of the protest will be decided next week.
Kostadinov noted that his party will not agree to anything else but a lifting of the certificate requirement. RY/MY/LG
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