National Assembly

A motley Bulgarian Parliament ended its last session on Thursday before noontime, adopting several pieces of legislation.

The 43rd National Assembly, which existed for just two years and three monhs, will be disbanded as of January 27, Friday.

Five parties would make it to Parliament in the early election this spring, a poll based on attitudes in mid-January shows.

The parties jumping above the 4% threshold include conservative GERB, socialist BSP, liberal, ethnic Turk-dominated DPS, the recently forged nationalist alliance United Patriots, and Volya, the new party of Varna-based businessman Veselin Mareshki.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament on Thursday rejected putting on the agenda of its new session a Serbian Radical Party (SRS) motion to set up an inquiry committee on the assassination of former PM Zoran Djindjic and its political background.

Eighteen MPs voted in favour of including the motion in the agenda, 152 did not vote, while one voted against.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament on Thursday rejected putting on the agenda of its new session a Serbian Radical Party (SRS) motion to set up an inquiry committee on the assassination of former PM Zoran Djindjic and its political background.

Eighteen MPs voted in favour of including the motion in the agenda, 152 did not vote, while one voted against.

South Korean lawmakers on Dec. 9 impeached President Park Geun-hye, a stunning and swift fall for the country's first female leader amid protests that drew millions into the streets in united fury.

South Korea’s National Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of impeaching President Park Geun-hye over her role in a corruption scandal, compelling her to turn over the reins of power to an interim prime minister.

BELGRADE - South Korean lawmakers on Friday voted overwhelmingly to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal, setting the stage for her to become the country's first elected leader to be pushed from office in disgrace.

The debate about Serbia's 2017 state budget has resumed in the tone that has been dominant in the Serbian National Assembly for several weeks now.

Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic got involved in an exchange with members of the Assembly ("people's deputies") before he even began to present the bill.

On Wednesday, BSP will return the mandate and will not participate with its own cadres in a new government within the framework of the current Parliament, announced on BNR the left-wing deputy Georgi Svilenski.

BELGRADE - The Czech Republic supports Serbia on its EU path and can help it open new negotiation chapters by end-year, Serbian National Assembly President Maja Gojkovic and the President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament Jan Hamacek said Wednesday.