Bulgarian Opposition MP Deposits His Resignation

Bulgarian Parliament's plenary hall. Photo by BGNES

Georgi Elenkov, a lawmaker from center-right GERB, has decided to step down.

Elenkov replaced former GERB MP, who left the party in February to become "independent" (but informally represented non-parliamentary Bulgaria without Censorship) and quit the National Assembly last week.

Stefanov's move to resign as member of Parliament allowed GERB, the party in the list of which he had been elected, to look for a substitute out of its own ranks.

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