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Lawyer Tsetska Tsacheva elected Speaker of 41st Parliament

Tue, Jul 14 2009 12:28 CET

byPetar Kostadinov

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Lawyer Tsetska Tsacheva elected Speaker of 41st Parliament

Tsetska Tsacheva, right

Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev

As expected, lawyer Tsetska Tsacheva was elected as Speaker of the 41st Bulgarian Parliament hours after its 240 MPs were sworn in on July 14 2009.

Tsacheva was elected by a unanimous vote. She is a representative of the Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (abbreviated as GERB in Bulgarian), who won the biggest share of votes at the July 5 2009 elections.

"What people expect from us is more work and, most of all, self-discipline," she said, addressing the hall. Tsacheva is a lawyer from the central town of Pleven where she was on the municipal council.

This was her first election to Parliament.

As Deputy Speakers of Parliament, MPs elected Lachezar Ivanov from GERB, Georgi Pirinski from the Bulgarian Socialist Party and former speaker of the 40th National Assembly, Hristo Bisserov from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Pavel Shopov from ultra-nationalist Ataka party, Ekaterina Mihailova from the right-wing Blue Coalition and Atanas Semov from the right-wing Order, Law and Justice party.

After appointing the leadership of Parliament, MPs approved the shrinking of the number of Parliamentary secretaries from 14 to six in accordance with the number of political formations who made it to Parliament.

Shrinking the administration was one of his party's priorities, said GERB floor leader Tsvetan Tsvetanov.

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