SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION |
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| Narodno Sobranie | ||||||||
| 1. Procedure for validation of mandates: | ||||||||
| The Constitutional Court shall act on an initiative from not fewer than one-fifth of all Members of the National Assembly, the President, the Council of Ministers, the Supreme Court of Cassation, the Supreme Administrative Court or the Chief Prosecutor.
A candidate for the National Assembly shall be free to contest the legitimacy of an election of a Member of the National Assembly before the Constitutional Court through the bodies mentioned above within a month after the announcement of the election by the Central Elections Commission. A ruling of the Constitutional Court shall require a majority of more than half of the votes of all justices. Rulings of the Constitutional Court shall be promulgated in Durzhaven Vestnik within 15 days from the date on which they are issued. A ruling shall come into force three days after its promulgation. |
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| 2. Secretariat, assistants: | ||||||||
| - For the parliamentary groups and standing committees
- Members of the National Assembly shall have the right to individual office space in Sofia equipped with the necessary technical and communication facilities. The National Assembly shall cover any additional expenses incurred by the MPs and parliamentary groups in connection with their proper work and limited to two thirds of the basic monthly salary. The gross amount shall be disbursed to parliamentary groups which shall determine the manner of allocation. Such sums shall be outlaid for assistance, consultations, expert opinions, offices and such others as are connected with Members' work in the Assembly and in their respective constituencies. Parliamentary groups shall file quarterly statements of expenses on the basis of such statements from individual Members. |
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| 3. Official housing, travel and transport: | ||||||||
| MPs have the right to use state-owned or municipal city transport, the railway, inter-city road transport and sea transport - at first class and sleeping
compartment rates - within Bulgaria free of charge. They may also claim expenses for travel, in connection with their proper work, by private bus services.
Members of the National Assembly may claim expenses for travel, in connections with their proper work, by air. This is limited, for Members whose constituencies fall within an airline service area, to the price of 40 return tickets annually, and for other Members, to the price of 12 return tickets annually. Members of the National Assembly who are not registered residents of, and do not own a family home in, the Greater Sofia Municipality, shall be provided with housing or hotel accommodation in the city of Sofia at the expense of the National Assembly. The Assembly shall not cover or reimburse any expenses for housing repairs, furniture or other current needs. Such Members shall have the right to per diem allowances for the week days of every month while the Assembly is in session. Members of the National Assembly shall have the right to accommodation and per diem allowances on journeys outside the area of their permanent residence for the calendar days of every month on which no sittings or committee meetings are scheduled. Travel allowances shall be paid if the Member concerned uses his own car. |
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| 4. Procedure for declaration of assets: | ||||||||
| Within one month of the first sitting of the National Assembly, Members shall file with the Committee on Budget, Finances and Financial Supervision, through the President of the National Assembly, a statement of assets as at the time of their election.
Annually, Members of the National Assembly shall file with the Committee on Budget, Finances and Financial Supervision a transcript of their tax return, a statement on any other remuneration they receive (see Art. 99 of the Rules of Organisation and Procedure of the National Assembly), a statement of their assets, and a statement on any gifts received (see Art. 8 of the Annex to the Rules of Organisation and Procedure of the National Assembly). |
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| 5. Procedure for waiver of immunity: | ||||||||
| Where there is sufficient evidence to the effect that a Member of the National Assembly has committed a grave crime, the Chief Prosecutor shall direct a substantial request to the National Assembly or, when the Assembly is not in session, to its President, for permission to institute criminal proceedings. Enclosed with such a request shall be sufficient evidence.
The Chief Prosecutor's request, and the evidence therewith shall be considered by the National Assembly and the Assembly shall pass a resolution thereon. If so requested, and if the Member concerned appears before it, the Assembly shall hear the Member concerned. When the National Assembly is not in session, the permission to institute criminal proceedings against a Member shall be issued by the President of the National Assembly. Such permission so issued shall be tabled for approval at the first sitting of the Assembly. Where the criminal proceedings conclude with a prison sentence for the deliberate commission of crime, or the execution of the prison sentence for any other crime otherwise committed is not suspended, the National Assembly shall adopt a resolution to terminate the powers of the Member concerned before the end of his term (see Definitive exclusion from Parliament by the latter). Where the Chief Prosecutor has requested that the Member concerned be taken into custody, the National Assembly shall pass a separate resolution on such a request. |
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| 6. Procedure for suspension of prosecution and/or detention: | ||||||||
| The Assembly may rescind a permission already given to take a Member into custody. In such cases, a resolution of the National Assembly is required. | ||||||||
| 7. Reduction of salary: | ||||||||
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If any Member of the National Assembly fails, for no valid reason, to attend a sitting or a committee meeting, there shall be withheld from his monthly remuneration two thirds, or one third, respectively, of the corresponding daily amount.
Where a sitting is adjourned due to lack of quorum, there shall be withheld from the monthly remuneration of Members absent without a valid reason the whole corresponding daily amount. |
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| 8. Procedure for call to order: | ||||||||
| The President shall call to order any speaker who does not keep to the matter at hand or disturbs the order of the sitting in any other way whatsoever. | ||||||||
| 9. Procedure for reprimand: | ||||||||
| The President shall reprimand any Member of the National Assembly whom he has already called to order at the same sitting but who persists in his disorderly
conduct.
The President shall likewise reprimand any Member of the National Assembly who, in addressing another Member or other Members, uses offensive language, gestures or threats. |
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| 10. Procedure for censure: | ||||||||
| The President shall censure any Member of the National Assembly who, having been called to order or reprimanded, persists in disturbing the order of the sitting or causes disorder in the chamber. | ||||||||
| 11. Procedure for rule out of order: | ||||||||
| The President shall rule any Member of the National Assembly out or order whom the President has already reprimanded twice during his speech, or who, the President's invitation to conclude his speech notwithstanding, continues his speech beyond the time limit. | ||||||||
| 12. Procedure for suspension from one sitting with loss of remuneration:: | ||||||||
| The President may suspend from the sitting in progress any Member of the National Assembly who disputes a disciplinary measure in a rude and unbecoming manner; continuously or repeatedly disrupts the normal progress of business in the chamber; or votes with another's card. | ||||||||
| 13.13. Procedure for suspension for up to three sittings with loss of remuneration: | ||||||||
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The President may suspend for more than one sitting but for not more than three sittings
any Member of the National Assembly who insults the National Assembly or the Head of State; calls to violence in the chamber or on the premises of the National Assembly; or repeatedly votes with another's card.
Any Member of the National Assembly suspended shall not be remunerated for the sittings from which he is suspended. |
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| 14. Procedure for interruption of the sitting: | ||||||||
| Where the transaction of business is disrupted by noise or disorder, or where dictated by other important reasons, the President may interrupt the sitting for a time. | ||||||||
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