The first working meeting of the formations selected in the new parliament lasted four hours. During the meeting, the positions that the parliamentary groups will occupy in the plenary hall were determined. Participants in the meeting announced that there had been no discussions about potential nominations for the Speaker of the National Assembly, and the biggest dispute was over the allocation of seats in the first row, reported BNR.
On the far left of the hall, from the viewpoint of the Speaker, the Bulgarian Socialist Party will once again be seated. They will have two people in the first row. Next to them will be the deputies of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms led by Ahmed Dogan, who will have one person in the front row. This is expected to be their leader, Dzhevdet Chakarov. Next to MRF will be Democratic Bulgaria with three people on the first row.
One of the two aisles in the hall will be between the members of "Change" and Democratic Bulgaria. The "MRF- New Beginning" party will be followed by two representatives in the first row, next to them - GERB-UDF with five. They will once again be separated by the aisle from the next block, shared by "Rebirth" and "There Is Such a People". They will have three and one person respectively on the first row.
MEP deputies from Radostin Vasiliev's party will occupy the end of the middle block seats in the hall.
Stoyu Stoev of People's Party - Democratic Bulgaria comments on the distribution:
"With 8 parliamentary groups, there's no way people could be satisfied, except perhaps our colleagues from GERB and MRF- New Beginning, because they didn't make any compromises," Stoev said, whose group will be split between the two sides of the aisle (see the chart below).
Pavela Mitova from "There Is Such a People" added:
"There were disputes over how many seats the parliamentary groups should occupy on the front row and where they should be positioned according to their orientation on the political spectrum."
Borislav Gutsanov of BSP defined the seat distribution as "reasonable," while the leader of the smallest parliamentary group - MUH, Radostin Vaselev - described it as "unfortunate," as they were the only ones who didn't receive seats on the front row.
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