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Bulgaria’s 45th National Assembly held its first sitting on April 15, eleven days after being elected, and voted into office a Speaker from Slavi Trifonov’s political party. The four-hour sitting was addressed by President Roumen Radev and by representatives of the six parliamentary groups, before proceeding to the election of a Speaker and Deputy Speakers. As is practice in the Bulgarian Parliament, before the election of a Speaker, the sitting was presided over by its oldest member: Mika Zaikova, 79, of Trifonov’s party. Processes of voting took time because the sitting was held in the old National Assembly building, from which the electronic voting system had been removed to the new chamber that came into use in 2020. ....
The Central Election Commission (CEC) met on April 11 its deadline for declaring the names of those deemed elected as members of Bulgaria’s 45th National Assembly, following the parliamentary elections a week earlier. Fourteen of the initial 240 names notified the CEC that they did not want to take up their seats, among them GERB party leader and current Prime Minister Boiko Borissov. Word is now awaited from head of state President Roumen Radev, who has up to a month after the elections to convene the first sitting of the National Assembly. Should Radev not do so, Parliament may be convened by at least a fifth of its members. ....