Ultranationist’s pro-Russian Velician party currently has 10 seats in Parliament after the Bulgarian constitutional court ordered a partial recount of the October election results.
The composition of the Bulgarian parliament has changed after ordering a partial recount of votes from the October election.
The recounting results showed that the ultranationalists, meaning “greatness” in Bulgarian and the pro-Russian Velician Party, reached the voting threshold required to enter Parliament.
The party had just missed 4% of the required votes previously.
Following the court’s ruling, the Bulgarian parliament welcomed 10 Belichie politicians on Friday as new members of the parliament.
Their arrival leaves a thin majority of razors in the Union government. Previously, there were 126 out of 240 seats in the parliament, but this number has now been reduced to 121.
The Balkans have held seven elections in the last four years, and are trying to overcome the outcome of this long political crisis.
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Former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, whose central right GERB party leads the current coalition government, claimed that his opponents created “chaos” by questioning the election outcome.
He criticized President Lumen Radev, who is in conflict with the government over foreign policy issues, for allegedly trying to defeat it.
“The plot was a success and we were eventually taken away. President Radev can’t continue to pretend that he’s not involved because the judge did all this,” Borisov told reporters.
