site.btaUPDATED Continue the Change Demands Resignations of MPs Daniel Lorer, Yavor Bozhankov

The Continue the Change (CC) party Thursday demanded the resignations of MPs Daniel Lorer and Yavor Bozhankov of Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria. By decision of the CC Executive Council, Lorer is expelled from the party and all its bodies, CC said in a press release.

The move came after Thursday's seventh - and unsuccessful - attempt to elect a chair of the 51st National Assembly, in which Bozhankov and Lorer were the only members of Continue the Change who did not vote in favour of the candidate of There Is Such a People, Silvi Kirilov. He thus received 118 votes in favour.

Later in the day, Democratic Bulgaria said in a Facebook post that they are firmly against the exclusion of Daniel Lorer and Yavor Bozhankov from the Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria parliamentary group over the two MPs' vote for National Assembly chair.