Tsetska Tsacheva: There will be no vote of no-confidence

“There will be no vote of no-confidence against the Government because of the Belene NPP since there are no constitutional grounds for debates on the motion – the required minimum of 48 signatures has not been collected,” National Assembly Chairperson Tsetska Tsacheva said today. Nevertheless, the extraordinary parliamentary session scheduled for April 23 will be held because it can be cancelled only by voting in the plenary hall.

During a press conference at the Ataka party headquarters some hours earlier, Ataka leader Volen Siderov said that all eight MPs who signed the no-confidence motion initiated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) have withdrawn their signatures from the censure motion document. The motion had been signed by the exactly required one-fifth of MPs: 39 MPs from Coalition for Bulgaria, 8 from Ataka and one independent MP.

“I was against the game of BSP but agreed with the censure motion with the idea that we would initiate a petition for a referendum for the Belene NPP, but BSP did not play fair,” Volen Siderov commented on the decision. According to him, BSP had appropriated Ataka’s idea and the withdrawal of signatures remained the only possible response on the part of Ataka.
Volen Siderov was adamant that the decision was made without any pressure from GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria). He also denied that Ataka’s decision had anything to do with his relations with Georgi Parvanov.

BSP leader Sergey Stanishev, however, had quite a different position. “Obviously, pressure was exerted on Ataka’s MPs,” commented Stanishev in Haskovo. According to the Chairman of Coalition for Bulgaria, it is obvious that Ataka’s decision is not in line with its convictions. Stanishev reminded that the Socialists had thanked Ataka for supporting the censure motion and wished them good luck if the withdrawal of their signatures is the only way to preserve the unity of their parliamentary group.

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