Censure

The Bulgarian government will be subjected to a vote of no confidence over its healthcare policy.

This was announced by the leader of the largest opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Mihail Mikov on Thursday.

BSP will initiate the censure motion due to the failure of the government in its healthcare policy.

A Facebook campaign to oust Speaker of the House Zoe Konstantopoulou was begun on July 20. The group, titled “Censure Motion Against Speaker of Parliament”, requires new members to be approved before being allowed to sign the petition.

National Liberal Party (PNL) Co-Chair Alina Gorghiu says the rejection of the censure motion on Friday proves the disrespect and defiance of PM Victor Ponta and his colleagues of the Social Democrat Party (PSD). She asserts PNL will try again this autumn, when another censure motion would definitely succeed.

Premier Victor Ponta asked the ruling line up to be present this Friday in Parliament at the debate and vote on the censure motion filed by the National Liberal Party, voicing his conviction that the initiative of the opposition "won't go through."

The Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has 14 days to come up with a report on the General Prosecutor's request to open an investigation against Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the Chamber Speaker Valeriu Zgonea declared on Saturday.

National Liberal Party (PNL) Deputies' leader Ludovic Orban on Friday said that there is "no connection whatsoever" between the Liberals filing the censure motion and "what happens in the DNA [the National Anti-corruption Directorate] activity."

Prime minister Victor Ponta, chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), declared himself proud that he is one of the 235 parliamentarians who have voted three years ago the censor motion that led to the Ungureanu Government's fall.

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Bulgaria's oppositional Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) threatens to initiate a vote of no confidence against the coalition government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

DPS is to hold the vote of no confidence after Borisov refused to request the resignation of Health Minister Petar Moskov, electronic daily Dnevnik reports.

The Chamber of Deputies rejected the simple motion of censure headed 'PSD [ruling Social Democratic Party] is allergic to justice', initiated by the Liberal and Democrat Liberal deputies.

The Tuesday's vote was 217 against the motion, 89 in favour of it, and four abstentions.

The Chamber of Deputies Secretary Niculae Mircovici announced this legislative body's agenda for next week, including a censure motion titled 'PSD [ruling Social Democratic Party] is allergic to Justice' and draft laws on a 5 percent cut to employers' social contributions and on fiscal amnesty for retirees.