site.bta51st National Assembly Reconvenes to Elect Parliamentary Chair

MPs reconvene to elect the Speaker of the 51st National Assembly. The first sitting of the new Parliament will resume on Friday at 11:00 am, the oldest MP Silvi Kirilov (There Is Such a People party) announced in the plenary hall.

Two unsuccessful attempts have already been made to elect a speaker of the National Assembly - at the opening of the new Parliament on November 11 and a day later. On November 13, MPs again failed to agree on who should head the institution and the session was adjourned.

There were a total of five initial nominations for the post:  Raya Nazaryan from GERB-UDF, Andrey Tsekov from Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), Petar Petrov from Vazrazhdane, Natalia Kiselova from BSP-United Left and Nicoleta Kuzmanova from There Is Such a People (TISP).