Parliament of Singapore

Five of the newly elected Members of the National Assembly - the leader of There Is Such a People Slavi Trifonov and two of his MPs, Atanas Kostadinov from BSP and Khalil Letifov from MRF, have been quarantined because of COVID-19.

The newly elected 45h National Assembly started its first session at 9:00 am on Thursday morning in Parliament's old building. The meeting is broadcast live on National TV and National Radio.

According to the expert in constitutional law Prof. Plamen Kirov the decision to hold the first sitting of the 45th parliament in the old building is a good one. However, it is likely to spark controversy over where parliament should sit in principle.

The first sitting of the newly elected 45th National Assembly will take place on Thursday (April 15th). Today, President Rumen Radev signed a decree convening it.

A bill, which envisions a security investigation for those who will be appointed to the public for the first time, was rejected by opposition parties' votes at the parliament on March 31.

Ljubljana – Igor Zorčič remains speaker of the National Assembly. The coalition failed with a motion to dismiss him Tuesday after he quit the Modern Centre Party (SMC) deputy group, as 45 voted in favour of the dismissal, one vote short of the required majority, and two votes were invalid.

The relevant bill was submitted to the Greek parliament on Tuesday

Two days before it was scheduled to start, North Macedonia's governing and opposition parties have agreed to postpone the long-awaited census for five months so that census takers and the wider population can get vaccinated first.

In the debates in Parliament's joint plenary sitting today, the National Liberal Party (PNL) will endorse the national budget as passed by the government and the specialist committees, PNL national leader Ludovic Orban said on Monday, adding that he is convinced that the bill will pass as planned. "We have established the strategy for the budget.

The MPs on February 24 decided not to hold regular plenary sessions from March 8 to 24. The reason is the election campaign of parties and coalitions for the parliamentary elections, which will be held on April 4.