Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP)

If elections for European Parliament were held today, in Bulgaria the Bulgarian  Socialist Party (BSP) would get 19.2% of votes, shows a poll of Sova Harris agency. 

According to the survey, quoted by Bulgaria’s Presa daily, the opposition center-right GERB would get 17% of the votes and the ethnic Turkish party DPS would get 6.2%.

Petar Kurumbashev, MP from the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), has resigned and will leave Parliament.

Bulgarian Parliament Speaker Mihail Mikov announced Kurumbashev's decision on Wednesday, without specifying the motives.

Kurumbashev is one of the seven deputy chairs of BSP, according to reports of mediapool.bg.

Lidiya Rumenova, a former member of the National Audit Office, was elected Chair of Bulgaria's auditing body.

Her nomination was supported by 95 out of 240 MPs, with lawmakers from Ataka and opposition Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) choosing not to vote, according to Dnevnik.bg.

Bulgaria's Parliament is to elect at a regular sitting on Wednesday a Chair of the National Audit Office.

MPs from the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the liberal party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) have nominated Lidiya Rumenova, former member of the National Audit Office.

Bulgaria's Agricultural Committee in Parliament voted on Monday against President Rosen Plevneliev's veto on the Agricultural Land Ownership Act.

Ten MPs were in support of overturning the veto, while 8 abstained, according to Expert.bg

15 political parties, 6 coalitions and 6 independent candidates submitted documents for participating in the European Parliament elections in Bulgaria on May 25.

The deadline for the registration of lists of candidates with the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) expired late on Tuesday, according to reports of Sega daily.

The journalist-turned-politician Nikolay Barekov, who leads the Bulgaria without Censorship party, announced "one more lawmaker" was to quit center-right GERB on Tuesday.

The Bulgarian Parliament voted against President Plevneliev's veto on amendments to the Audit Office Act.

Everything will be done to make Belene Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) reality, Bulgarian ruling party's lawmaker Yavor Kuyumdzhiev said on Tuesday.

The legal committee at Bulgaria's Parliament approved the Movement of Rights and Freedoms (DPS)'s proposal for changes to May 25's EU Elections ballot.

Under the DPS-initiated legislation, numbers corresponding to preferential candidates will be circled and not written in a square, as the Election Code stipulates.