Patriotic Front

Lawmakers have appointed all ten members of Bulgaria's Chief Judicial Inspectorate, an institution that under recent constitutional amendments is to have enforced powers in the government's fight against corruption.
 

Bulgaria's parliament endorsed the nomination of Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva as the country's new education minister on Wednesday.

Kuneva was elected to the post in a 106-66 vote and 31 abstentions in the 240-seat Parliament.

As lawmakers are set to vote on the candidacy of Meglena Kuneva to become Bulgaria's next Education Minister, it is not clear how much support she will gain.

Kuneva was endorsed by junior coalition partner Reformist Bloc after Prime Minister Boyko Borisov asked her successor, Todor Tanev, to resign amid controversy that a draft school curriculum sparked in society.

Lawmakers remain divided as Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva is expected to be the government's proposal to take over as Education Minister.

Last week Prime Minister Boyko Borisov asked incumbent Todor Tanev to step down, citing "recurring problems at the ministry and the sector."

Lawmakers have overwhelmingly given the green light to the introduction of online voting in all elections and referendums.

As many as 137 MPs have voted in favour, 55 giving the thumbs down and citing concerns about voting secrecy.

Under a draft proposal yet to be completed by Parliament, every Bulgarian citizen should be able to vote using the Internet "or another network".

Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party hopes to sign an update to its coalition government agreement with junior partner the Reformist Bloc (RB) by January 25 to confirm commitment to reforms in key sectors, the head of GERB MPs Tsvetan Tsvetanov has said.

Bulgaria's Parliament has given the green light to a package of bills setting next year's state budget and overhauling expenditure for 2015.

Revenues for 2016 are estimated at BGN 20.6 B, and expenditure will be BGN 10.97 B.

Of transfers included in the budget, worth BGB 10.52 B, some BGN 2.66 B are earmarked for municipalities.

A Bulgarian nationalist party has said it will contest mayoral election results in the city of Plovdiv over "violations". 

Plovdiv's incumbent mayor Ivan Totev has won a second term in office, after a night of uncertainty as vote count suggested he and rival Slavcho Atanasov was running neck-to-neck.

With 100% of the voter protocols having been counted, Totev has 50.78% of ballots 1 lead of 1502 votes.

Average voter activity in the run-off vote of Bulgaria's local elections was about 21.17% as of 13:00 EET on Sunday, election authorities have said.

This marks a sharp rise with the 8.7% nationally as of 10:00 EET, election authorities have said.