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BSP leader Korneliya Ninova has accused GERB of putting pre-election pressure on the opposition.

Valeri Simeonov from the Patriotic Front has been elected chairman of the commission which will investigate the facts regarding the Belene nuclear power plant.

At an emergency meeting on Tuesday, deputies voted for the creation of a commission which must investigate the circumstances concerning the project in the period 2006 and the end of September 2016.

Bulgarian MPs have been summoned to an extraordinary session on Tuesday to discuss the latest changes to the electoral law proposed on Monday by the leading party, GERB.

The three partners forming or backing Bulgaria's minority cabinet have finally reached a compromise to amend the Electoral Code after an emergency meeting, removing a cap on the number of poling stations outside Bulgaria.

Ombudsman Maya Manolova has submitted to the Constitutional Court of Bulgaria sections of the Electoral Code curbing the number of polling stations abroad.

One of the "heavyweight" parties of the Reformist Bloc alliance, the junior partner in Bulgaria's coalition government, has said it will pull out of governance if the bloc's candidate fails to gather enough votes in the presidential elections.

Bulgaria's main ruling party GERB is set to propose eleventh-hour amendments to the Electoral Code at an extraordinary Parliament session on Tuesday, party officials have said.

The announcement comes hours after both President Rosen Plevneliev and Ombudsman Maya Manolova confirmed their intention to refer sections of the code to the Constitutional Court.

One of the Reformist Bloc's parties has said it may propose the alliance to call for early general elections in Bulgaria next year if "all other options are exhausted".

After a surprise visit to Parliament today, PM Borisov has called an emergency meeting at 17:30 hrs to discuss the readiness of the ministers from the coalition partners of GERB to continue to be part of the government.

Besides the ministers, the meeting will be attended by the chairmen of the parliamentary groups of the political forces supporting the Cabinet.

"GERB's Parliamentary Group asked me today to reshape the government.