Parliament ended its last session, ahead of the July 5 2009 elections, just two hours after it started work, news agencies said on June 12 2009.
 
Parliament had to dissolve after the lunch break for a lack of quorum. MPs were scheduled to debate amendments to the Traffic Act but never did. This means that the issue will now have to be debated by the next Parliament. Among the amendments were higher fines for traffic offenders.
 
In the morning, however, MPs had passed, on second reading, the new Family Code that will come into force on October 1 2009. Some clauses in the new Code contain stipulations that parents will provide financial support to their children up to the age of 25 provided that the children cannot support themselves and are enrolled in a university.
 
Children aged up to 20 years will also be entitled to receive financial help from their parents provided that they are enrolled in high school.
 
Children will have to respect their parents as well as elderly members of their family, MPs decided.  
 
The last official session of Parliament will be hold on June 25 2009 - but only for reasons of protocol - as MPs earlier decided to end their sessions with the formal start of the election campaign, which is June 14 2009.
 
The lack of a quorum has been one of the most common reason why this Parliament has had to postpone, reschedule or dissolve sessions, even when vital legislation was being tabled.    
 
According to the Speaker of Parliament, Georgi Pirinski, the current Parliament has laboured work more effectively than previous ones. In his speech he highlighted some of the important acts that this Parliament managed to adopt, including the package of legislation containing tax reforms, the conflict of interest act and the act introducing the figure of the national ombudsman.