Ekaterina Zaharieva

The Bulgarian parliament approved on Friday the nomination of Ekaterina Zaharieva as the country's new justice minister.

A total of 126 MPs voted in favour of Zaharieva's nomination, 66 lawmakers were against, while 17 abstained, BGNES news agency informs.

The Bulgarian parliament will vote on Friday on the appointment of Ekaterina Zaharieva, who has been nominated as the country's new justice minister.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov presented Zaharieva to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has put forward the candidacy of Ekaterina Zaharieva, the President's Chief of Staff, as a successor to the outgoing Justice Minister.

This comes following an announcement by a member of the Reformist Bloc, the junior partner in Borisov's GERB-led government, that Zaharieva is the common nomination on which GERB and the RB have agreed.

Bulgarian Parliament approved at third reading on Wednesday the amendments to the constitution concerning the reform of the judiciary.

The amendments were overwhelmingly approved with 189 MPs voting in favour, 39 lawmakers against, while 1 abstained.

Ekaterina Zaharieva, Chief of Staff to the President of Bulgaria, will be the next Justice Minister, a member of junior coalition partner Reformist Bloc said on Wednesday.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has scheduled a meeting of the Consultative Council for National Security on November 10, an official with the Presidency has said.

The session will focus on the geopolitical environment and the developments in the Middle East, alongside the migrant crisis, Ekaterina Zaharieva, an adviser to Plevneliev, has told private national bTV station.

A new cyber attack targeted on Sunday the website of Bulgaria's Central Election Commission (CIK) during a run-off vote of local elections, officials say.

The attack was "weaker" compared to the one of last week, when the first round and a referendum on online voting were held, Prof Mihail Konstantinov, who heads state-owned Information Services company, has told Focus News Agency.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will veto the recent amendments to the Military Intelligence Act.

This was announced by the chief of the presidential cabinet, Ekaterina Zaharieva, in an interview for private bTV station on Wednesday.

Betina Zhoteva, the spokeswoman for Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry, will be appointed to the Council for Electronic Media (CEM), the Presidency of Bulgaria has said.

Zhoteva was nominated by Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev, who appoints several members of the media regulator alongside Parliament.

Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev is due to renew his attempts at triggering a national poll on election rules in June this year, his Chief of Staff Ekaterina Zaharieva has said.

Zaharieva, who was also Deputy PM in last year's interim government, explained in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio that the President still believes "people's demands have to be heard".