49th National Assembly

49-то Народно събрание
History
FoundedApril 12, 2023 (2023-04-12)
Preceded by48th National Assembly
Leadership
Deputy Speakers
Structure
Seats240
Political groups
Government (132)
  GERB-SDS (69)
  PP-DB (63)

Confidence
and supply (36)

  DPS (36)

Opposition (72)

  Revival (37)
  BSP (23)
  ITN (11)
  Independent (1)
Meeting place
National Assembly Building, Sofia
Website
parliament.bg

The Forty-Ninth National Assembly (Bulgarian: Четиридесет и деветото народно събрание) is the current convocation of the National Assembly of Bulgaria, formed according to the results of the early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, held on 2 April 2023.[1]

Speakership selection

Despite each parliamentary group having the right to nominate a candidate for the Speakership role, it was contested only between GERB’s Rosen Zhelyazkov and Revival’s Petar Petrov. The process failed twice due to Petrov only receiving the support of his own party and Zhelyazkov not getting enough votes. The problem was resolved after PP-DB agreed to back Zhelyazkov's candidacy, with the agreement for him to switch places with Nikola Minchev in three months time.[2] This was later changed, after the two parties agreed to a rotation government, in which the Prime Ministers would switch places simultaneously as the Speakers of the National Assembly.[3]

Government formation

With Bulgaria being in the middle of an already 2-year-lasting political crisis, the GERB-SDS and PP-DB parliamentary groups decided to disregard their differences and embrace their common pro-European goals. The solution was to be a rotation government, many of whose Ministers were to be Independent experts. The respective nominees for Prime Minister were Mariya Gabriel,[4] the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth and Nikolay Denkov,[5] a former Minister of Education and Science. After long negotiations, Nikolay Denkov was sworn in as Prime Minister on June 6, 2023, while Gabriel assumed the role of his Deputy and Minister of Foreign Affairs.[6] The two would switch places in nine months time. The main goals of the new Government were Bulgaria joining both the Schengen area and the Eurozone, as well as other legislative initiatives, such as a constitutional amendment in regards to the judicial branch in Bulgaria.[7]

References

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