SOFIA, Oct 14 (NNN-XINHUA) — Bulgaria’s four-month-old government led by Nikolai Denkov on Friday survived a no-confidence motion filed by the opposition parties.
The motion was backed by 71 deputies of the ultra-nationalist Revival party, a coalition led by Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the There Is Such People (ITN) party, while 143 deputies voted against it in the 240-member Parliament.
The opposition filed the motion on Oct. 5 over the government’s green transition plans.
At a debate on Thursday, BSP leader Korneliya Ninova said the government — a coalition of the conservative GERB party, the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) bloc and the centrist Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) — “is killing the Bulgarian energy industry consistently, categorically and adamantly. This poses a national security risk.”
The Denkov cabinet took office on June 6 this year.
