Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev will convene the 47th National Assembly on Friday, December 3. “We Continue the Change” will have 67 MPs in the new Parliament, followed by GERB/SDS- 59 MPs, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms-34 MPs, the Bulgarian Socialist Party-26 MPs, “There is Such a People”-25 MPs, “Democratic Bulgaria”- 16 MPs and “Vazrazhdane”- 13 MPs.
The political forces negotiating a new government will have a majority of 134 MPs at the 240-seat National Assembly. According to Bulgaria’s head of state Radev, parliamentary parties have two important tasks- to form a government based on a stable parliamentary majority and to adopt the 2022 state budget.
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