Bulgarian Parliament accepts the Government's resignation
The National Assembly accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's Government with the votes of 209 lawmakers, including 111 members of GERB, 37 of BSP, 14 conservatives, four representatives of Ataka and several independent MPs.
The outgoing Prime Minister came in time for the vote, after electing to scip the debates.
Within minutes of the results, Borissov used the Parliament's grand stand to drop a verbal bomb, saying that Ahmed Dogan had ordered an assassination attempt on him.
While the lawmakers were busy deciding the Government's fate, thousands of GERB followers gathered outside Parliament to support the Cabinet. Stock-breeders, tobacco-planters and ordinary citizens from around the country came together with bagpipes, tractors, trucks loaded with pigs and GERB flags to support the government.
After the Cabinet’s resignation was accepted, the former PM Boyko Borissov, accompanied by former ministers Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Ivaylo Moskovski and Svilen Neykov, left the National Assembly to attend a protest staged in his support. In front of the protestors, former Deputy PM and Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov stated that, in just two months, GERB will win a second mandate as such is the will of the voters.
“Everyone who loves me and respects me will go home ... I will consider a provocateur everyone who goes to Positano (Editor’s note: where the headquarters of BSP is located),” Borissov addressed the protestors. GERB’s leader toured behind the fence of the National Assembly to shake hands with his supporters.
Text and photo: klassa.bg
(25.02.2013)