Currently chairing Silvi Kirilov, for the first time since the 51st National Assembly began, showed emotion and visible irritation at the situation in the hall, reported Dariknews.bg. More than a month after the parliamentary elections, Bulgaria has not elected a permanent president. And today, the first session of the parliament is still going on. The deputies choose between four candidates, but due to nearly four hours of remarks, rejoinders, answers and accusations, a vote has not yet been reached.
"Before I close the debates, I want to ask to reduce the tension", Kirilov addressed the deputies from the rostrum.
"And because I respect this place extremely much, here, in my professional path and life as a Bulgarian citizen, and I have always looked at the work of the National Assembly with respect, I want to say to the representative of the people, who knows many features of my character that I do not know, that I am brought up to be responsible for what I have given,' he said, probably answering someone in the hall.
"I was born a Bulgarian, I worked as a Bulgarian, honestly, for 50 years in a job, difficult and responsible, in which hundreds of decisions are made every day and not all of them are correct, but with the accumulation of experience, the correct ones solutions have increased. The most difficult thing in the work is to make classifications and qualifications, so answer yourself first what you have given to the Bulgarian people and to the Bulgarian citizen and to the Bulgarian voter, and then evaluate the others", said the presiding officer Silvi Kirilov angrily.
Deputies then went into a requested new recess of 60 minutes.