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The Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Tatiana Doncheva, the Deputy Chief of the MRF Yordan Tsonev and the Co-Chair of the National Assembly Hristo Ivanov. PHOTO: ARCHIVE.
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An amendment to parliamentary rules proposed by Democratic Bulgaria prevented their group from putting the Judiciary Act and the Criminal Procedure Code on parliament’s agenda, closing special courts and special prosecutor’s offices and regulating cases. , and judges, prosecutors and investigators to work.
The two proposals were not included in the agenda originally presented by parliamentary chief Iva Miteva. But the head of the Democratic Bulgaria group, Hristo Ivanov, suggested they be included as points. However, the rules and procedures for submitting bills scolded the deputies in the hall. The debate revolved around two texts in the Rules of Procedure – whether two bills could be proposed on the agenda in one procedure and whether they should not wait 72 hours from the submission of the committee’s report to parliament until it is considered in plenary. The last text was changed by “Democratic Bulgaria”, but its interpretation turned out to be controversial for the deputies.
Your suggestion is not precise. According to the rules, it is inadmissible to propose two bills, so I appeal to you to choose only one proposal, said Hamid Hamid from the MRF.
However, the head of the parliament replied that it was written in the rules that in fact only one proposal could be made by an MP, not the group, and she read the text of the rules.
You read the text very correctly – separate proposals can be made, my idea was that it is not precise to contain two separate bills in one proposal. Moreover, I did not see a report from the legal commission, Hamid replied.
No report has been received, but the commission has reviewed the bills, Miteva said. She suggested not to put them to the vote, because according to the rules, if there is no report of the relevant parliamentary committee, the proposals are inadmissible.
Hristo Ivanov, on the other hand, suggested that they vote separately as soon as this “worries colleagues”, but Miteva replied that she would include it in the agenda when there is a report of the Committee on Legal Affairs.
Due to the long meeting last time, the report was signed this morning at 8:30, but was deposited in the office at 9.06, said the head of the legal commission Radostin Vassilev.
It should take 72 hours from the time it is brought into the office to the courtroom, Hamid insisted.
72 hours for the transcript, not for consideration of the bill, Miteva replied.
As far as I remember – the reports of the committees to be presented no later than 72 o’clock in the plenary hall was a proposal of the colleagues from “Democratic Bulgaria”. Let’s respect him. This week, there is no way this can be seen in the hall, Hamid insisted again.
Not from the submission to the viewing, but from the voting to the submission, the Deputy Chief of the National Assembly Tatiana Doncheva returned to him.
However, Miteva read the rules, from which it became clear that there should be 72 hours until the examination in a hall by the committee. And so he decided to move on.
However, this angered the deputy from DB Nadezhda Yordanova and she asked to speak. “I make two remarks. First it became clear from the provision, as read by the chairman, that it is for the publication of the minutes by the relevant parliamentary committees and not for the consideration of the reports. Please apply the same standard to all items on the agenda, otherwise we are blaming our own work, “she said.
I also call for the same standard to be applied, commented Dimitar Glavchev from GERB. Earlier, he demanded that the proposals of the BSP and “Stand up! Mutri out”, which propose increases in pensions, be dropped from the agenda, because there are no two months since they were submitted to the office and no reports have been received on them. However, Miteva then explained to him that they would still enter the hall because the parties of the Presidential Council had agreed on that. “
The items are included for consideration in today’s agenda of the Committee on Budgets at first reading. What are we going to watch? We turn everything upside down, Glavchev insisted.
I do not have strong feelings for this bill, but the text is for publication on the website and it can be seen in plenary. Even with a broader interpretation, it can be included in this week’s program. The attempt to avoid a bill with procedural tricks is wrong, commented Christian Vigenin from the BSP.
It is not very appropriate for Mr Vigenin to listen to him for a procedure, because at the last sitting he is holding, contrary to the constitution, which says that a third vote is allowed on a text that has a contradiction, he did not allow that vote. I am also skeptical about its interpretation, said Yordan Tsonev from the MRF. He insisted that once the report was received after 9 a.m., the item would be voted on when the deadlines expired and the rules allowed.
When the deadlines expire, it was really submitted at 9.05 am and when the deadlines expire on Friday, I will make a proposal according to the regulations, Miteva replied.
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