Bulgaria Parliament Reshuffle Becomes Official

The speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva, informed 3 MPs left their parliamentary seats over a reshuffle imposed by the Constitutional Court. Photo by BGNES

The speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva, officially announced Wednesday that 3 Members of the Parliament are vacating their seats.

The 3 are: Mariana Darakchieva from the right-wing Blue Coalition, Rushen Riza from the opposition ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) and Atanas Semov from the conservative Order, Law and Justice (RZS) party.

After the reshuffle, DPS lost one of its 38 parliamentary seats, the ruling Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) gained one and the Blue Coalition and RZS announced they will make some personal changes.

The reshuffle came on the heels of the Tuesday rule of the Constitutional Court to void 18 000 votes cast in Turkey in Bulgaria’s July 2009 Parliamentary Elections because of electoral process violations. Bulgaria recalled its Ambassador to Turkey, Branimir Mladenov, in the fall of 2009 over the said violations.

DPS declared they are going to file a suit with the ECHR disputing the decision.

 

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