Doomed No-Confidence Vote Submitted in Bulgarian Parliament

Bulgarian Socialist Leader Sergey Stanishev carrying the no-confidence motion. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and far-right Ataka submitted a no-confidence motion in the country's Parliament on Friday.

The move is triggered as what the two parties perceive as ruling centrist-right GERB's failure in the energy sphere. Last week, the GERB government decided to scrap the Belene Nuclear Power Plant, a project backed by the two aforementioned parties.

It is already clear that the no-confidence vote is doomed, as all Parliamentary formations besides BSP and Ataka have declared they would not support it.

According to reports, two Ataka MPs and one BSP lawmaker declared on Friday that they would not support the motion, bringing down the number of those in favor of ousting the government to just 48, which is exactly the bare minimum for a no-confidence motion to be submitted.

BSP MP Miglena Plugchieva has refused to sign the no-confidence motion, since she has been proposed as Bulgarian Ambassador to Switzerland.

A total of 121 votes are necessary for the no-confidence vote to pass.

"The decision to stop Belene is fatal for Bulgaria, for Bulgaria's nuclear energy and for the people. The result will be much higher electricity bills and a risk for the sheer existence of Bulgaria's nuclear energy," BSP leader Sergey Stanishev reiterated on Friday.

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