Bulgaria Ruling GERB, Right Wingers Head Key Committees in Parliament

Nine committees will be chaired by GERB MPs, two - by representatives of the Blue Coalitio, and BSP, DPS, Ataka, and RZS will head one each. Photo by BGNES

The center-right GERB party, which recently formed Bulgaria's minority government, and the right-wing parties in the Blue coalition will head the most important committees in the new parliament.

The parties represented in parliament reached this agreement on Tuesday.

The Blue coalition, comprised by the two biggest right-wing parties the Union of Democratic Forces and Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, will chair the body dealing with economy, energy and tourism.

GERB will head the budget and judicial committees.

Nine committees will be chaired by GERB MPs, two - by representatives of the Blue Coalition, and BSP, DPS, Ataka, and RZS will head one each.

The Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense will be headed by "Order, Law, Justice" (RZS). The party is expected to nominate Dimitar Chukarski for the position.

Chukarski used to be Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union (BZNS) adviser, and in the last three years he has been organizational secretary of the party.

Ataka will propose Ognyan Stoichkov as a chair of the Education Committee, and DPS will propose Dzhevdet Chakarov for the Environment Committee.

The Blue Coalition will nominate Martin Dimitrov as chair of the Committee on Economy, Energy and Tourism, and for the Committee on Person, Religion, Complaint, and Petitions the coalition has to choose between Lachezar Ivanov, and Yordan Bakalov.

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) will head the Social Committee.

According to the number of MP in the new parliament the parties will have deputy chairs as follows - 20 for GERB, 7 for BSP, 7 for DPS, 4 for Ataka, 3 for the Blue Coalition, and 2 for RZS.

Iskra Fidosova, Chair of the temporary Committee on the Interior Regulations, announced that GERB will only use 15 of the deputy chairs places. The other parties can use the rest.

Meanwhile it emerged that the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms has decided that former Deputy Disaster Management Minister Delyan Peevski, who has had one of the most scandalous and corruption tainted careers in the recent history of the country, will be member of the committee for corruption combat.

Peevski, 29, was dismissed from the cabinet in May 2007 amidst a large-scale corruption scandal that led also to the suspension of economy minister Rumen Ovcharov.

Peevski was sworn in officially as MP on the ticket of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms last week, just a day before the Supreme Judicial Council released him temporarily from his post at Sofia investigative service.

 

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