The Foreign Affairs Committee in the 51st National Assembly will be headed by Boyko Borisov, chairman of the GERB-SDF parliamentary group. Yordanka Fandakova from GERB-SDF, Lena Borislavova from “We continue the change - Democratic Bulgaria“ (PP-DB), Angel Georgiev from “Vazrazhdane“ and Radostin Vassilev from “Moral, Unity, Honor“ were elected as deputy chairmen. (MECH).
The commission will consist of 19 members of parliament, of which five are from the GERB-SDF parliamentary group, three from PP-DB, three from “Vazrazhdane“, two from “Movement for Rights and Freedoms – New Beginning“, two from “BSP-United Left“, two from “Democracy, Rights and Freedoms“ – MRF, one from “There is such a people“ and one from MECH.
During the discussions on the proposal for chairman, Angel Georgiev from “Vazrazhdane“ said that they have very serious criticisms of Boyko Borisov, who headed the Foreign Policy Committee in the 50th National Assembly.
According to Georgiev, the committee then held two meetings, one of which was to vote on the internal rules, and the second meeting of the committee took place thanks to a petition collected by “Vazrazhdane“ to convene an extraordinary meeting to consider a draft resolution related to the Republic of North Macedonia. He recalled that at that time the ITN also criticized Boyko Borisov for not doing anything in the Foreign Policy Committee. "It is very interesting now to see whether from Ima tsvetno svoj In practice, we are witnessing sabotage of the work of the committee, commented the MP.
Denitsa Sacheva (GERB-SDF) responded by emphasizing that Borisov was the Prime Minister of Bulgaria three times.
He is the person during whose administration the successful European presidency was held, she noted. The technical details you have highlighted, related to the number of meetings, duration, have no bearing on the indisputable end result - that it was under the chairmanship of Boyko Borisov that the same committee adopted this declaration. She recalled that Boyko Borisov was elected chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee in several national assemblies. Your attitude towards the leader of our parliamentary group is known and the arguments you have put forward have nothing to do with politics and represent an extremely elementary form of nagging, she turned to Georgiev.
The only thing Boyko Borisov can do in foreign policy is to come to Kostadin Kostadinov, sign an autograph for him and leave, Georgiev replied.
Toshko Yordanov, chairman of the parliamentary group "There is such a people" in a procedure on the manner of conduct, asked the chairman of the meeting to remind Georgiev that the opposition partner "New Beginning" is part of the opposition, not of the ruling majority. There is no "New Beginning" in the ruling majority, so it is good to make these small changes.
We are not with "DPS-New Beginning", but you are, Yordanov addressed Kostadin Kostadinov, chairman of "Vazrazhdane", referring to the fact that both "DPS-New Beginning" and "Vazrazhdane" are opposition.