Vazrazhdane MP Spends 30 Minutes Reading Polling Stations from Turkiye after Assen Vassilev’s Remarks 2026

Balgarianovinite.com During Thursday’s parliamentary sitting, MP Georgi Hrisimirov of Vazrazhdane spent around half an hour listing polling stations in Turkiye where, according to him, Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), MECh, Velichie and what he called “the Turkish parties” want to preserve the votes for Turkish parties.
Earlier in the day, Assen Vassilev of CC-DB had spent one hour and 20 minutes reading out, polling station by polling station, how many Bulgarian citizens in the United Kingdom would be deprived of their right to vote if the amendments to the Electoral Code tabled by Vazrazhdane were adopted. The proposed changes provide that in countries outside the European Union no more than 20 polling stations may be opened outside Bulgarian diplomatic and consular missions.
“Unlike the votes read out by Assen Vassilev in the UK and the US, which are distributed more or less evenly among five or six parties, I am reading only the votes for the Turkish parties, because they account for 90% of voters,” Hrisimirov said. “From Turkiye, between four and nine MPs are sent to the Bulgarian parliament. We cannot allow that,” the Vazrazhdane MP added.
“What you tried to do from this rostrum was to divide Bulgarian citizens on an ethnic basis and according to where they live,” Vassilev commented. “We are not dividing them,” he added.
Independent MP Myumyun Myumyun asked which Turkish parties were being referred to and noted that he was a member of a Bulgarian party. “The [Movement for Rights and Freedoms] MRF is the party that represents all these people. As for the internal party issue – Alliance for Rights and Freedoms (ARF) and MRF – we will resolve it ourselves,” he added.
Taner Ali (Alliance for Rights and Freedoms) said that Hrisimirov had violated the Bulgarian Constitution by claiming that there were Turkish parties in Bulgaria. Under the Constitution, there are only Bulgarian parties in the country, he stressed. “Let us not divide ourselves into Turkish and Russian parties, because we know what kind of party you are,” Ali added. Vazrazhdane MP Spends 30 Minutes Reading Polling Stations from Turkiye after Assen Vassilev’s Remarks 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-02-05 19:33:18 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