Bulgarian Parliamentary Speaker Faces Threat of Removal After No Quorum For Second Day

Jerusalem, 25 September, 2025 (TPS-IL) -- Sofia (BTA) – The Bulgarian parliament will not sit on Thursday, for a second day, due to lack of a quorum. The Speaker of the National Assembly Natalia Kiselova closed today’s session after a second unsuccessful attempt to start work on the scheduled agenda.

“It is evident that there is a quorum in the plenary hall, but since colleagues are not registering, I think it is time to say ‘see you tomorrow at 9:00,'” said Kiselova and announced that she was closing today’s meeting, which was never opened.

Earlier, during the first attempt to start the session, 104 MPs registered. A further attempt was announced after 15 minutes, in which the required number of 121 MPs was also not registered.

Yesterday, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Natalia Kiselova, closed the session due to a lack of quorum almost immediately after it began.

The far-right “Vazrazhdane” party is starting to collect signatures to remove Kiselova from her post for systematic failure to fulfill obligations under the parliamentary rules, party chairman Petar Petrov announced. The consultations will be outside the ruling political formations – GERB-SDF, “BSP-United Left” and “There is a People” plus the supporting “DPS-New Beginning”. The required signatures according to the rules are 80, with which to submit a request to remove the Speaker of the Parliament from the post, Petrov said.

He recalled that last Friday, the parliamentary group filed an objection to Kiselova’s allocation of the three bills to committees, which take away the president’s authority to issue a decree appointing the heads of the State Agency for National Security, the State Agency for Intelligence, and the State Agency for Technical Operations . According to Vazrazhdane, this violates the principle of separation of powers and the figure of the presidential institution as a balancer.