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Armenian parliament adopts bill on amendments to the Electoral Code at 1st reading | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency 19:43, 6 May, 2021 YEREVAN, MAY 6, ARMENPRESS. The National Assembly of Armenia adopted at the 1st reading the bill on amendments to the Electoral Code and the package of bills attached to it. ARMENPRESS reports the bills were adopted unanimously – 82 MPs voted in favor and 1 abstained. The legislative package envisages enshrining the conduct of pre-election debates on the Pub...

Bulgaria’s head of state President Roumen Radev said on May 5 that he intended to sign the decree dissolving the 45th National Assembly on May 11. Radev made the comment after Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova returned the exploratory mandate to form a government minutes after it was presented. The head of state said that he intended to complete the process to appoint a new Central Election Commission, in line with the Electoral Code amendments passed by the National Assembly ...

GERB party the country will lurch from crisis to GERB leader Boyko Borissov said on Monday.  Borissov is convinced that his political opponents in parliament cannot make decisions, are afraid to take responsibility for the government, and that such uncertainty will lead the country into a string of new crises.  Borissov’s party, GERB, won the parliamentary elections in April but failed to obtain the majority required to form the next government. The party has already returned the mand...

If the Bulgarian government is not formed by the GERB party the country will lurch from crisis to crisis, outgoing prime minister and GERB leader Boyko Borissov said on Monday.  Borissov is convinced that his political opponents in parliament cannot make decisions, are afraid to take responsibility for the government, and that such uncertainty will lead the country into a string of new crises.  Borissov’s party, GERB, won the parliamentary elections in April but failed to obtain the majorit...

In Step Toward Snap Polls, Armenian Lawmakers Reject Pashinians Candidacy As New PM May 03, 2021 13:15 GMT Share share Print Armenias parliament has rejected the candidacy of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as the new head of government, in an agreed first step toward holding snap parliamentary elections. Pashinian resigned on April 25, clearing the way for parliamentary elections to be held, in an effort to defuse a political crisis prompted by the outcome of the countrys war last year w...

Bulgaria’s outgoing Prime Minister and GERB party leader Boiko Borissov said on May 3 that the country’s next parliamentary elections would not produce a government and would mean only spending tens of millions of leva on a “meaningless race”. Bulgaria appears set for new parliamentary elections as the process of the head of state offering a succession of three mandates to form a government is running its course with no prospect of a result. Borissov’s party, which got the largest sha...

At a special meeting on May 1, the national council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party approved a recommendation by the executive bureau that the party would immediately return the mandate to be offered to it on Wednesday by President Roumen Radev to seek to form a government. The decision by the BSP, taken after a meeting lasting more than three hours, to return the mandate on May 5 would formally set Bulgaria on course for new parliamentary elections. The parties that won, respectively, the lar...

In a long 10 hours session National Assembly adopted important amendments and supplements of the Electoral Code. The polling stations in the country with 300 and more voters will vote only with machines. There will be an exception only in unforeseen external circumstances, when machine voting proves impossible and it is necessary to switch to paper ballot voting. Paper ballots will be used for voting only in the sections with less than 300 voters, in voting with a mobile ballot box, in polling ...

Bulgaria’s National Assembly passed at second reading on April 29 a bill of amendments to the country’s Electoral Code, implementing a number of changes to the election process, which would go into effect ahead of the snap parliamentary polls expected in the summer. The bill was tabled earlier this month by cable television presenter Slavi Trifonov’s ITN party, with several bills by other parties rejected by the National Assembly’s legal affairs committee, and approved at first reading ...

The Bulgarian Parliament’s sitting that had been scheduled to begin on April 28 was cancelled after it failed to agree on the agenda for the week. Boiko Borissov’s GERB, Kornelia Ninova’s Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms abstained from voting on the agenda, resulting in the cancellation of the sitting. The agenda had included the first reading of amendments to the Political Parties Act, to reduce state subsidies for political parties, the second reading o...