Bulgarian Parliament

The Bulgarian parliament will discuss the draft government budget for next year at an extraordinary plenary sitting on Tuesday.

Prior to the draft government budget, the MPs will first discuss and adopt at second reading the budgets of the National Health Insurance Fund (NZOK) and the National Social Security Institute (NOI).

The Budget and Finance Committee of the Bulgarian parliament approved on Monday the draft government budget for next year.

The chairperson of the committee, Menda Stoyanova, proposed the planned cuts to the social benefits of police officers, which had been the cause of large-scale protests across the country earlier in November, to be dropped.

The Bulgarian parliament ratified on Friday the intergovernmental agreement with Poland on the repair of six of the country's MiG-29 fighter jets.

At first reading, the agreement was approved by 133 MPs out of the 177 lawmakers present in the plenary chamber, with 42 being against.

The Bulgarian parliament will finally discuss the ratification of the intergovernmental agreement with Poland on the repair of six of the country's MiG-29 fighter jets.

This is the first point on the agenda of the parliamentary sitting on Friday, with the discussion having already been postponed twice.

On Thursday, the Bulgarian parliament approved at first reading the draft government budget for next year.

A total of 138 MPs voted in favour of the draft budget, 65 lawmakers were against, while nine abstained, daily Dnevnik informs.

The Bulgarian parliament will discuss at first reading on Thursday the draft government budget for next year.

In the plenary chamber on Wednesday, the MPs approved the budgets of the National health insurance fund (NZOK) and the State Social Insurance.

 All 23 permanent parliamentary committees presented their reports on Wednesday.

The Bulgarian parliament voted on Wednesday in favour of the detention of two nationalist Ataka MPs, who are being investigated for their alleged participation in three incidents in downtown Sofia.

A total of 124 MPs voted in favour, 19 were against, while 15 abstained, daily Dnevnik informs.

A Bulgarian parliament commission will hold a hearing of top Interior Ministry officials about last week's protests by members of police force on Tuesday.

A sitting of the Home Security and Public Order Commission  is scheduled to start at 3 p.m.(1300 GMT).

A new round of talks between the Bulgarian government and trade unions on the reforms to be carried out in the Interior Ministry is expected to start on Monday.

The discussion will concern the proposed budget of the ministry for next year, which initially foresaw cuts to the social benefits of officials.

Bulgarian Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva has said changes to some prescriptions in Bulgaria's Election Code are "likely" after the run-off vote of local elections held Sunday.

Speaking to journalists after casting a ballot in the town of Pleven, north-central Bulgaria, Tsacheva has cited "difficulties" in registering election results after the first round as a reason.