Only 54 members of the 240-seat National Assembly have been said to have supported the first no-confidence motion against Bulgaria’s coalition government, led by Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, which failed on Thursday, while 150 voted against it.
The government has been in office for just two and a half months as it came on board on Jan. 16 with the backing of 125 legislators.
The motion, initiated on March 26 by three opposition parliamentary groups, accused the government of failure in the area of foreign policy.
The 36-seats parliamentary group ”We Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria’’, the second largest in the legislature, chose not to participate in the vote.
Boyko Borissov, leader of the GERB party and head of the 66-seats GERB-UDF parliamentary group, said on Wednesday that foreign policy was not currently a problem for the government.
”What the Zhelyazkov cabinet is doing is what we think as a party firm European support, friendship with Euro-Atlantic partners, and cooperation in military-industrial projects,’’ Borissov said.
