In a late evening meeting, the parliament created 3 temporary committees of inquiry. The first was proposed by "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria" (PP-DB) and will investigate the Road Map and the construction of the Balkan Stream gas pipeline. A second committee will investigate the case with the derogation for the export of petroleum products from "Lukoil" Burgas. The "Vazrazhdane" party voted against the creation of the second committee. No chairpersons of the two committees were elected. At the suggestion of ITN, a committee was was also created to investigate corrupt practices in the "Customs" Agency and a possible role of Finance Minister Asen Vasilev in them. The committee will be headed by MP Toshko Yordanov. PP-DB voted against.
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Even before the election of the regular committees, the Parliament decided to set up an ad hoc committee to find out all the facts and circumstances of the drought problems in the country. The decision was taken unanimously with 203 votes in favour. The..
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Hundreds of miners protested outside the Council of Ministers while an extraordinary meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation was..
"I am addressing a question to the Prime Minister regarding information that on November 26 this year, a group of Bulgarian citizens was on trial in..
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