Bulgaria: What are the Goals and Priorities of the MPs for the New Political Season (SUMMARY)

After the vacation, the Bulgarian National Assembly began work in the plenary hall renovated three years ago in the building of the former Communist Party House on "Knyaz Alexander I" Square. The meeting started at 9:00 a.m. with the anthems of Bulgaria and the EU. After the traditional opening, the parliamentary groups of GERB-SDS, "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria", "Vazrazhdane", DPS, BSP and "There Is Such a People" presented their main priorities for the new political season.

Rosen Zhelyazkov, Chairman of the National Assembly: "There is a quorum, I open the meeting."

In the first declaration for the session, GERB-SDS stated that they supported the "Denkov-Gabriel" cabinet with full awareness of the scale of the compromise.

Desislava Atanasova, chairwoman of the PG of GERB-SDS: "With the election of the current regular government, the Parliamentary Group of GERB-SDS clearly showed that for us power is not an end in itself. It is not personnel appointments based on their party affiliation that are the basis of our choice to support a government. We have put our narrow party interest in the background. However, this does not mean that we have agreed to uncritically accept every decision of the government, of certain of its ministers or of the parties that have issued them."

"We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" (WCC-DB) pointed out that the political crisis was overcome with a conscious common effort.

Atanas Atanasov, WCC-DB: "And so the Denkov-Gabriel cabinet was created as a fundamentally tense compromise, the purpose of which was not to overcome the differences between the main political forces, but to create an opportunity to restore the parliamentary republic. And together let's...