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Ministers from the two parties in the outgoing government are poised to take seats in the Bulgarian Parliament after the cabinet's resignation is accepted.

Boyko Borisov, the outgoing Prime Minister, is also tipped to become an MP.

GERB and the Reformist Bloc had a total of 12 representatives in Bulgaria's executive.

The meeting of the parliamentary group of GERB and President Rossen Plevneliev will take place on Thursday, announced in Parliament the Deputy Chairman of the party Tsvetan Tsvetanov.

There will be political consultations which the President will hold with all groups represented in Parliament in order to look for solutions useful for the state, said Tsvetanov.

EU Delegation to Serbia head Michael Davenport has not been able to present European Commission's report on Serbia to a parliamentary committee.

FPO party's candidate in Austrian presidential elections, Norbert Hofer, will arrive here on Tuesday for a two-day visit.

However, the FPO vice-president will be in Belgrade in his role as a high-ranking Austrian parliamentary official, and will meet with Serbian National Assembly President Maja Gojkovic.

BELGRADE - An Inter-Parliamentary Union roundtable in Geneva has commended Serbia for building mechanisms enabling free access to information, as well as for progress made in strengthening parliamentary capacities.

The Bulgarian Parliament will hold an extraordinary session on Friday, October 14, at 09:00, despite lawmakers' surprising decision to call off all plenary meetings for four weeks.

The two main opposition parties of Bulgaria have managed to gather enough signatures to overturn MPs' earlier decision to end plenary sessions for the time of elections.

Dimitar Glavchev, the deputy speaker of Bulgaria's national assembly, will head Parliament ad interim, the incumbent speaker Tsetska Tsacheva has said.

It would be wrong for Tsacheva to attend to her duties as Parliament Speaker over the next month, as a presidential campaign is to begin on Friday and her office would give her unfair advantage to other candidates.

The Bulgarian Parliament has rejected conscription.

The project of the co-chairman of the Patriotic Front Krasimir Karakachanov did not receive the support of a majority of parliamentary deputies at first reading of the amendments to the Defence and Armed Forces Act.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament has elected six of seven deputy speakers as Jasmina Nikolic, put forward by the Enough is Enough movement, received no support from MPs.

BELGRADE - Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) official Maja Gojkovic was on Monday re-elected as the speaker of the Serbian parliament.