The former Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov and eleven ministers from his cabinet return to parliament as members of parliament. They were part of the composition of the 51st National Assembly before being elected to the executive branch.
The Speaker of the National Assembly Raya Nazaryan announced that due to the appointment and assumption of office of the caretaker government, the powers of Rosen Zhelyazkov, Tomislav Donchev, Atanas Zafirov, Daniel Mitov, Georg Georgiev, Georgi Georgiev, Krasimir Valchev, Zhecho Stankov, Ivan Ivanov, Borislav Gutsanov, Manol Genov and Silvi Kirilov have been restored, and the powers of those who replaced them in parliament for the time they were part of the regular government have been terminated.
According to Art. 68, para. 2 of the Constitution, a member of parliament elected as a minister shall terminate his/her powers for the period during which he/she is a minister, and shall be replaced in the appropriate order.
12 members of parliament are leaving the parliament - Georgi Georgiev, Mihail Mitov, Denitsa Nikolova, Stefan Marinov, Valeria Slavova, Desita Petkova and Stanislav Guberov from GERB-SDS, Nina Dimitrova, Bilyana Ivanova, Galin Durev and Desislav Taskov from “BSP-United Left“, as well as Dimitar Gardev from “There is such a people“. This will also lead to changes in the composition of the standing committees.
Until now, Dimitar Gardev was the Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs and Control of European Funds in the National Assembly, and Desislav Taskov - Chairman of the Committee on Tourism.
Denitsa Nikolova was the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Budget and Finance, Galin Durev - Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Defense, Bilyana Ivanova - Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Water, and Nina Dimitrova was the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Social Policy.
The former Minister of Finance Temenuzhka Petkova, who was sworn in as an MP at the beginning of the 51st National Assembly, will not return to parliament. By a decision of the Constitutional Court, the election of 16 MPs, including Petkova, was declared illegal, and the party “Velichy“ entered the National Assembly as the ninth political force.
Hasan Ademov, who became Minister of Labor and Social Policy in the caretaker government with Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov, is leaving parliament and the next candidate on the list of the "Alliance for Rights and Freedoms" should enter his place as an MP.