The deputies shot the head of the parliament! (PHOTOS+VIDEO) – Bulgaria

D deputies removed Rosen Zhelyazkov from the post of Speaker of the National Assembly. With 129 votes “for” and 103 “against”, the elected representatives voted for his resignation.

“Dear colleagues, it was an honor for me to be the chairman of the 49th National Assembly. Sometimes you have to be quiet to be heard. All of us in this room are people, but people sent by other people to work for people. As people, we have our passions, but as people’s representatives, we have responsibility,” Zhelyazkov said minutes before he was released from office. I will not pleasantly surprise you to speak politically. There is a thought of a great aphorist who says that sometimes you have to be silent to be heard. We are all people here, but people who are sent by other people to work for people. As people’s representatives, we must have responsibility, accountability and integrity. And another quality that we sometimes lose is humanity,” Zhelyazkov said in his speech, which was met with thunderous applause.

“The BSP did not sleep in front of Boyko Borisov’s office,” said BSP leader Kornelia Ninova from the parliamentary rostrum after the vote to end the debates on Zhelyazkov’s resignation.

“For 9 months, you couldn’t understand whose minister belonged to whom. In our time, when I was the Minister of the Economy, everything was known. I will not allow you to involve the BSP in the schemes of the parallel state. We will not enter it”, she is categorical Nineveh.

From the second attempt, the National Assembly gathered a quorum to start today’s session, after 125 people’s representatives registered in the hall. At the first attempt to register, there were 117 deputies in the hall.

The opposition demanded the resignation of Rosen Zhelyazkov as chairman of the National Assembly due to the voted resignation of the chairman of the National Health Insurance Fund. “In December 2023, Stanimir Mihailov resigned as the chairman of the National Health Insurance Fund, after a few months Zhelyazkov put it in the plenary hall for a vote, after which Mihailov withdrew it. Nevertheless, the deputies voted for it. The request for the resignation of the chairman of the parliament should not be political act, but in relation to how the person copes with the task that has been set for him,” said PP-DB co-chairman Asen Vasilev.

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“To begin with, when it became clear that the chairman of the NHSOC had withdrawn his resignation in the secretariat of the National Assembly before the vote in the hall, I personally requested a break on behalf of the PG so that you have time to decide not to vote on a resignation that has been withdrawn “, Vassilev explained. “You returned to the courtroom and made the wrong decision. This is also the reason why we are asking for your resignation,” commented Asen Vassilev.

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The other co-chairman of the PP-DB, Kiril Petkov, also commented that the chairman of the NHSOC was not invited to the hall, although he was in the National Assembly building. “The bills on justice reform are also being delayed,” said Petkov.

Gen. Atanas Atanasov also joined the reasons of his fellow party members that the requested resignation is because of the case with the chairman of the National Health Insurance Fund.

“The resignation is being demanded from the same people who for 9 months ruled together with GERB and DPS, drank greasy Turkish coffee with Peevski and crawled in front of Borisov’s office every day,” said Stanislav Balabanov from ITN. According to him, then the actions of Rosen Zhelyazkov were defended and there was no problem with the leadership of the National Assembly.

“Right now, these people are doing stupid things, just like those who cost them tens of billions and a ruined economy,” said Georg Georgiev from GERB-SDS. According to him, those who want to oust the Speaker of the National Assembly are the same ones who wanted to hold elections with their Ministry of the Interior. “Mafia underlings with “grunt-grunt motives”, Georg Georgiev also said.

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“Rosen Zhelyazkov is a worthy chairman of the Bulgarian parliament”, said Toma Bikov (GERB-SDS) during the debates, in which the draft decision on the early release of the chairman of the National Assembly was discussed. According to him, Zhelyazkov has managed to gain authority even among the representatives of the opposition. I expected to hear a little more weighty reasons for this request because it is primarily a political act, he said. According to Bykov, a request for the resignation of the speaker of the parliament is a very serious and important decision, especially in a situation where we have a caretaker government, in the framework of a political crisis, and the speaker is one of the few figures in the country who is regularly elected.

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He recalled that Rosen Zhelyazkov was also elected with the votes of the PP-DB and specified that he could not understand their position now. Bikov pointed out that perhaps their motivation is to put another topic “in circulation” in the media space or a tactical approach regarding the election campaign. We take this as an “explosion” of the possibility of dialogue between GERB-SDS and PP-DB in the medium and long term, he said. According to him, PP-DB do not realize the situation they are in and that it requires them not to make sudden movements, because any sudden movement will “hurt” them more.

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“You will gain nothing, except the astonishment of a large part of the Bulgarian society regarding your actions”, added Bykov and specified that every action in politics, regardless of whether it is done in a meaningful way or not, leads to certain results.

The regulations provide that the Speaker and Deputy Speakers of the Parliament may be released early upon a written proposal of at least one third of all the people’s representatives, when there is an objective impossibility to fulfill the duties or a systematic violation of the rights, or a systematic non-fulfilment of the duties within their competence. The proposal is put to a vote at the first meeting after the day of its receipt, giving the person the right to be heard. It is adopted if more than half of the people’s representatives present voted for it.