Lawmakers in Bulgaria’s Parliament set up twelve permanent Committees on Thursday and are to create the remaining ten on Friday, amid controversy over how seats are allocated.Most party group Chairmen remained ordinary members of committees.The senior coalition partner GERB is currently heading nine committees, while the junior partner Reformist Bloc (RB) is holding the Chairperson’s seat of five.Patriotic Front, which is presently supporting the cabinet, is heading three committees.Alternative for Bulgarian Revival (ABV), the left-wing party that sent a single minister to the cabinet to boost its parliamentary majority, gained two Chair seats.One was allocated to each of the …read more
Source: Novinite
