2024-07-25 15:46:05
The 50th Parliament will go on vacation after August 9, so that there will be no pre-election campaigning. Thus, he will have actually worked for only 24 days
This parliament has eight days of work. August 9 is expected to be their last working day, it became clear after the meeting of the President’s Council on Wednesday. During this time, the deputies must urgently adopt about 11 of the total of 64 draft laws submitted to the registry of the 50th National Assembly from its start until today.
The idea is for the meetings to continue until the third mandate is returned to President Rumen Radev. According to the rules, the parliament’s summer vacation is from August 1 to 31. For the postponement, a draft resolution to change the dates must be voted on. Only the PP-DB proposed that the MPs work throughout August, but the other parties considered this to be populist, because the National Assembly could become a tribune for an election campaign.
Thus, for the remaining little more than two weeks, the deputies will try to adopt changes in at least 11 laws. Among them, texts in the law on telephone 112, introduced by the Council of Ministers, because this is necessary under the recovery plan. GERB’s proposals in the Labor Code and CSR, which limit the possibility of draining unemployment benefits – the so-called French unemployment, as well as to accept paternity for raising a child up to 2 years old. The 2024 budget update, which is important for municipal projects, has already passed the first reading, the final adoption of the texts is pending.
MPs will try to pass the law on the euro,
which describes how the conversion from BGN to EUR will take place and introduces a period for double marking of prices. As well as the draft decision of GERB to speed up the process of adopting the euro. Also on the agenda are the law on credit institutions, as well as the investment project to buy electronic warfare systems and radio technical weapons to improve the navy’s anti-submarine capabilities.
It is expected that all three introduced changes of ITN and PP-DB in the Health Act will pass. Nikolay Denkov’s people
introduce telemedicine, which will be useful for consultations,
without the patient having gone for an examination, as well as lightweight software for examinations, prescribing drugs and registering a patient. They also have texts on checking the health status of blood donors, so that there is no risk of donating infected blood, as well as on ambulances in small towns where there are no hospitals.
On July 19, the 50th National Assembly turned one month old. If it goes on vacation after August 9, the deputies will actually have worked for only 24 days.
As through them they mainly dealt with hearings of ministers, sometimes even of the same minister twice in one day. A total of 19 hearings were held. The acting prime minister Dimitar Glavchev, the regional minister Violeta Koritarova, the interior minister Kalin Stoyanov and the energy minister Vladimir Malinov were most often subjected to parliamentary fire. Glavchev explained about the preparations for the NATO Summit, about our relations with North Macedonia, about the dismissals and appointments in the services and about the fires in the country. Four times Minister Koritarova went to the rostrum of the National Assembly for explanations – about the progress on the construction of the “Hemus” highway, about the “retaining wall” of “Alepu”, about the construction of the Vidin – Botevgrad expressway, as well as about the money for municipal projects.
Deputies were engaged in hearings, as parliamentary
committees were only formed last week
And in order for a draft law to enter the plenary hall, it must first be discussed and voted on in a committee. They started their work this Wednesday.
A total of 64 bills are pending in the registry of this parliament, and there is still no movement on them. Of these, 15 were introduced by the Council of Ministers. Among them are the changes to the Road Traffic Act, which propose a reduction of the maximum permitted speed on highways from 140 to 130 km/h, as well as toll cameras to also monitor the speed of cars.
The rules for the election of members of the Anti-corruption Commission and the Law on the Protection of Persons Reporting Violations also expire.