2024-08-17 06:08:57
No legislation passed after two days of wrangling at the end of the summer session
There should be more cameras in Parliament to stop MPs fighting and insulting each other in the hallways and elevators.
This is what MPs from the PP-DB demanded on their last working day before the summer vacation and only a week after their colleague Yavor Bozhankov was attacked on the sidelines by members of “Vazrazhdane”.
Along with Kiril Petkov’s people, the deputies from Velichie around Ivelin Mihailov have signed the draft decision. They demand that cameras be installed in the hallways and elevators and that the chief secretary of the National Assembly, Stefana Karaslavova, be responsible for this. And in their reasons it is mentioned that the reason is “a number of gross incidents that happened in the short history of the 50th National Assembly”.
An example is given that the internal corridors of the building and
elevators are a “comfortable space for the aggressive”,
for they are far from the sight of now existing observation. In some cases, the attacks were expressed in “sharp verbal attacks, rude insults in the elevators”. And in others, a group of deputies directly attacked a colleague who was alone.
This is exactly the case when Kosta Stoyanov from “Vazrazhdane” attacked Yavor Bozhankov with the words “Hey, fuck” because of his speech against the adopted changes, which banned the propaganda, popularization and incitement of “non-traditional sexual orientation” in school.
Today, another scandal broke out between “Vazrazhdane” and Manol Peykov. It was not clear what provoked Georgi Georgiev’s quarrel with the MP from PP-DB already in the plenary hall, but in media videos it is heard how
are insulted by “mold”, “drunken” and “you walk like a gypsy”
Thus, with scandals, the deputies went on vacation. On their last day, they operated with almost zero efficiency and did not pass a single law – as they did during the first month and a half of the 50th Assembly. For today, 5 points and parliamentary control were planned, but after the first one passed, the deputies refused to work on the legislation and directly transferred the questions to the ministers.
And the day before they did nothing, although they extended their working hours. The meeting lasted 7 and a half hours, but the deputies spent only 3 hours working. The rest were breaks.
They were expected to work hard in the last week to make up for the nearly two months lost early in the term when they could not form committees to begin work on the laws.
MPs will return to work on September 4. They are expected to break their vacation on August 20 for the official cabinet to be sworn in before them. After the changes in the constitution, which curtailed the powers of the president, Rumen Radev no longer accepts the official ministers of “Dondukov” 2, and the procedure goes to the National Assembly.