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Motion demanding Bulgarian President's impeachment fails to get support in Parliament

Wed, Mar 31 2010 15:44 CET

byPetar Kostadinov

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Motion demanding Bulgarian President's impeachment fails to get support in Parliament

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The ruling majority failed to get the needed 161 MPs votes in support of sending the motion requesting President Georgi Purvanov's impeachment to the Constitutional Court.

On March 31 2010, after several hours of debates, the motion tabled on March 26 2010 received only 150 votes in favour, so ending the  month-long saga surrounding Purvanov's impeachment.

The outcome of the vote became clear in the first minutes of Parliament's session when the right-wing Order, Law and Justice party said it would not support the motion because the ruling party GERB was trying to turn it into a vote of confidence in Boiko Borissov's Government.

That way the ruling majority could only count on the 155 MPs of which 117 were from GERB, 21 from ultra-nationalist Ataka, 14 from the right-wing Blue Coalition and three independent MPs.

The 72 MPs of the two parties in opposition, the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, voted against the motion.

OLJ MPs were not present in the hall.

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