Bulgaria’s Parliament created a Temporary Commission on the Immunities of Petkov and Borissov

After three hours of debate and with 186 votes "for" and 32 "against", the parliament created a temporary commission to decide whether to remove the immunity of the people's representatives Boyko Borissov and Daniel Alexandrov from GERB-SDS, Kiril Petkov from "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" (WCC-DB) and Dimitar Avramov from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS). They were requested by the chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev in order to seek criminal responsibility on various charges. The proposal for the formation of the commission was submitted by the parliamentary group of "We Continuing the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" and, apart from them, it was also supported by GERB-SDS, "Vazrazhdane" and DPS.

The commission's term of office will be until July 18, 2023. Desislava Atanasova and Raya Nazaryan from GERB-SDS, Nikola Minchev and Dimitar Naydenov from "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria", Hamid Hamid and Gunar Ahmed from DPS, Petar Petrov and Nikolay Drenchev from "Vazrazhdane" were approved as members. The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and "There Is Such a People" (TISP) refused to send their representatives to the committee.

However, the National Assembly once again failed to appoint a chairman of the committee, after the deputies did not approve the DPS proposal for Hamid Hamid and the other three formations participating in it refused to appoint a leader. Thus, this committee becomes the next one with an unelected chairman, after the 49th National Assembly failed to nominate heads of standing committees due to lack of a governing majority, and an amendment had to be inserted in the rules of parliament, which would allow the chairman of the parliament Rosen Zhelyazkov to call committee meetings and determine who will lead them...