With a quorum of 151 people's representatives, the Speaker of the National Assembly Rosen Zhelyazkov opened today's session of the Parliament. At the beginning, he congratulated the Muslims on the occasion of the Ramadan Bayram holiday, after which he introduced the deputies to the program of the National Assembly until Friday.
From the PG of “Revival“ requested a hearing of the head of Military Intelligence, Brigadier Admiral Venelin Venev, but the proposal was rejected by the people's representatives.
The case on which we propose a hearing of gen. Venev, is extremely serious. For the first time, we have a case where this reaches the National Assembly with an official report. It is about an unprecedented intervention of a member of parliament – Atanas Atanasov – in the work of one of the security services. This is an attack on national security, the leader of the “Revival“ declared from the rostrum. Kostadin Kostadinov.
After a call for a re-vote by Kostadinov, Rosen Zhelyazkov put the proposal to the vote again, but it was not accepted on the second try.
Later, Zhelyazkov announced to the National Assembly the resignation of the ombudsman Diana Kovacheva, terminating her powers.
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As the first item on the agenda, the deputies started debates on changes to the Law on Railway Transport.