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The Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria [a] is the supreme and basic law of the Republic of Bulgaria. The current constitution was adopted on 12 July 1991 by the 7th Grand National Assembly of Bulgaria, and defines the country as a unitary parliamentary republic. It has been amended six times (in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2015 and 2023).
1 January – Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen Area. [1]16 January – The National Assembly approves a coalition government between GERB, the BSP and the ITN led by Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov of GERB.
It was approved by the parliament of Bulgaria on the 16th of January, 2025. [1] The cabinet is a minority coalition government with ministers nominated from GERB, BSP-UL and ITN. [ 2 ]
The Bulgarian unicameral parliament, the National Assembly or Narodno Sabranie, consists of 240 deputies who are elected for 4-year-terms by popular vote. The votes are for party or coalition lists of candidates for each of the 28 administrative divisions. A party or coalition must garner a minimum of 4% of the vote in order to enter parliament.
The Second Glavchev government was sworn in before the National Assembly on August the 27th. [4] The cabinet had largely the same composition as the first glavchev caretaker government, with the notable replacement of Kalin Stoyanov by Atanas Ilkov, as Minister of Interior, as well as the replacement of Georgi Gvozdeykov by Krasimira Stoyanova, as Minister of Transport. [5]
The Council of Ministers (Bulgarian: Министерски съвет, Ministerski savet) is the main authority of the executive power in the Republic of Bulgaria. It consists of the Prime Minister of Bulgaria and all the specialized ministers.
Bulgarian law is a largely civil law system, based on epitomes in French law and German law. It retains increasingly fewer elements of Soviet law . This makes the state's approach to criminal law inquisitorial rather than adversarial , and is generally characterised by an insistence on formality and rationality.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, a vocal critic and rival of prime minister Borisov, announced that he will run for a second five-year term of office in presidential elections in autumn 2021. [ 8 ] Borisov's last cabinet saw a dramatic decrease in freedom of the press, and a number of corruption revelations that triggered yet another wave of ...