Balgarianovinite.com Parliament on Thursday adopted the Rules of Organization and Procedure of the 52nd National Assembly. Parliament Chair Mihaela Dotsova said the Council of Chairpersons had agreed that the rules should be reviewed chapter by chapter.
Parliament decided to establish ad hoc committees on the proposal of 48 MPs. A proposal to lower the threshold to one-tenth, or 24 MPs, was rejected. Parliament also decided that the National Assembly Chair will no longer have the right to propose the establishment of ad hoc committees, after lawmakers adopted an editorial proposal by the chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Draft Rules of Organization and Procedure of the National Assembly, Dimitar Zdravkov. The subject matter, size, composition and term of ad hoc committees will be determined by the National Assembly, while the rules for standing committees will also apply to them. Standing committees will be convened by their chair, at the request of at least one third of their members or by the National Assembly Chair, and draft-law discussion minutes will be published on Parliament’s website before plenary consideration and finalized within set deadlines.
Parliament also reduced the number of standing committees from 25 to 24. The separate Demographic Policy Committee will be replaced by a Labour, Demographic and Social Policy Committee, a move opposed by Anna Bodakova of Democratic Bulgaria, Rositsa Kirova of GERB-UDF, Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov and Continue the Change Floor Leader Nikolay Denkov, who argued that demographic issues require dedicated attention and coordinated policies for children and families. Dimitar Zdravkov and Vladimir Nikolov of Progressive Bulgaria said demographic policy would remain a focus, with Zdravkov describing its inclusion in the social policy committee as “entirely natural”. The former Electronic Governance and Information Technology Committee will become the Committee on Innovation and Digital Transformation. Parliament will also have a Committee on Economic Policy, Investment and Industry, while the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee will be renamed the Legal Affairs Committee. The Committee for Oversight of the Security Services, the Use of Special Surveillance Means and Access to Data under the Electronic Communications Act will be formed on a parity basis and chaired on a rotating principle for one parliamentary session according to the size of parliamentary groups.
The National Assembly further decided that it will no longer go into recess during parliamentary election campaigns. MPs removed the rule barring regular plenary sittings and committee meetings between the start of a general election campaign and the convening of the newly elected Parliament. Other changes reduce speaking times for procedural matters, replies and dissenting opinions, and allow extraordinary sittings to be held no earlier than 12 hours after being scheduled. In exceptional cases, the National Assembly Chair may propose a change to the agenda without consultation among the parliamentary groups in the Presiding Council.
The MPs shortened from 72 to 48 hours the deadlines for making bills and lead committee reports available before their consideration in standing committees and in the plenary hall. The same deadline will apply to second-reading debates. An initial proposal for a 24-hour deadline was revised after objections from the opposition, with the 48-hour version proposed by Zdravkov. Parliament also decided that a MP may justify proposals made within three minutes for each proposal instead of the previous five minutes. Progressive Bulgaria Floor Leader Petar Vitanov explained that ad hoc committee had adopted a proposal by Continue the Change MP Stoyu Stoev allowing every MP to speak on any issue, regardless of whether they are the proposer or not.
Parliament also changed the rules for parliamentary control, allowing the prime minister, deputy prime ministers and ministers to postpone oral answers to MPs’ questions due to illness, a mission abroad or urgent circumstances, while dropping the previous limit of two postponements. MPs from the opposition criticized the removal of safeguards requiring members of the executive to appear before Parliament, with Continue the Change Chair Assen Vassilev warning that “the moment the executive runs away from the debate, the debate moves to the square”. Under the adopted texts, questions for parliamentary control will continue to be submitted in writing through the National Assembly Chair at least 72 hours before the sitting, while written replies will be due within ten days. Parliamentary question time is preserved and will be held during the first up to two hours of the sitting on the first Friday of each month, when the prime minister and deputy prime ministers answer topical oral questions concerning the Government’s overall policy. Parliament Adopts New Rules of Organization and Procedure for 52nd National Assembly 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-05-28 18:51:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law