site.btaDemocratic Bulgaria Proposes GERB-UDF and BSP-United Left to Support Silvi Kirilov for National Assembly Chairperson, Proposal Rejected

Democratic Bulgaria proposed to GERB-UDF and BSP-United Left to support the nomination of Silvi Kirilov from There Is Such a People for the position of National Assembly chairperson, but the proposal was rejected, said Yordan Ivanov from Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) before Parliament's seventh attempt to elect a chairperson on Thursday.

“The CC-DB has already made two major concessions. First, we had a candidate for chairperson who received more votes than Raya Nazaryan (GERB-UDF) in the first round, and then we made another concession by saying that DB would abstain from voting to avoid disrupting the process. Today, we proposed to the MPs from GERB-UDF and BSP-United Left to have seven members from their parties and seven from ours (DB) to vote in favor of Silvi Kirilov in order to resolve the crisis. Ultimately, this proposal was rejected. We continue to search for a solution,” Ivanov said.