Parliament Fails to Secure Quorum for Extraordinary Sitting with Just 11 MPs Registering

Momchil Rusev

Extraordinary sitting on October 27 (BTA Photo)

Sofia,

27.10.2023 12:43

(BTA)

The National Assembly did not secure a quorum for the start of the extraordinary sitting on Friday, at which lawmakers were to discuss President Rumen Radev's veto on amendments to the Energy Act envisaging a liberalization of the electricity market for household end-users.

Only 11 MPs registered in the debating chamber, while 121 MP quorum was required for a sitting to take place. There will be no re-verification of the quorum, Parliament Chair Rossen Zhelyazkov said.

Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria, Vazrazhdane and BSP for Bulgaria declared that they will boycott the sitting.

On October 19, President Rumen Radev vetoed the amendments. The head of State argues in his reasons that, without disputing the need to align domestic legislation to the commitments assumed by Bulgaria to the EU, the full liberalization of the electricity market for household users by 2026, envisaged by the law, does not provide for protection of energy-poor and vulnerable users which EU law enables and requires.

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