site.btaParliament Votes Down No-Confidence Motion against Government

June 29 (BTA) - Parliament voted down a no-confidence motion against the Government of Boyko Borissov on Friday. The motion was tabled by 80 MPs of the opposition BSP for Bulgaria party over a "failure of security policy".

The motion was supported by 104 MPs of the BSP for Bulgaria and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms with 131 votes "against" from the ruling GERB, the United Patriots, and Volya.
 
To go through, the motion needed the votes of 121 MPs in the 242-seat legislature.
  
Several ministers were in the plenary as the vote was taken. National Assembly Chair Tsveta Karayancheva explained that Prime Minister Borissov could not attend the vote, as requested by Socialist MP Anton Koutev, because he is in Brussels on Friday.