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“It was difficult for us to gather information on the work of the National Assembly during the past year, and this is very important on the eve of the parliamentary elections.” This was commented to BNR Iva Lazarova of the Public Environment Development Institute about what the deputies did and how much they spent in 2020.
“According to the number of bills considered – 135, 144 decisions and two declarations in 120 plenary sessions, 10 of which extraordinary, it turns out that the National Assembly has worked a lot, but there are laws that have been revised many times – these are seven amendments to the Penal Code, five times the VAT Law, and three times there were proposals for changes in the Electoral Code.
Sometimes public discussion is lost and this undermines the credibility of the most important body of the parliamentary republic.
Thus, in the summer there was a 10 percent drop in the confidence of parliament, according to data from “Alpha Research”, and the decline in September is already 7 percent, “Lazarova recalled in the program” First of all. “
In 2020, there were 27 commissions, of which 23 were permanent and four temporary, the most exotic being that of changes in the Constitution, and another interesting one was the one that had to verify the facts about the suspension of the Horizon program. She finished her work earlier this year with only 4 meetings – Lazarova explained.
“BGN 81 million was the budget of the 44th National Assembly, while BGN 23.5 million was for salaries, and maintenance costs include another BGN 11.3 million, as the basic salary of a deputy is BGN 4,200, three average monthly salaries. In the public sector. According to the property declarations of the deputies last year, they have declared around BGN 45 million of income, of which BGN 21 million is dividend income of a MP from MRF – Delyan Peevski, “Lazarova said.
According to her, the leaders of the parliamentary groups have information about the control of the expenses of the deputies, they have information about their complete report, but the general public does not have access to such information.
“Society does not have access to information on how the popular deputies spend additional funds for their activities, such as payment of assistants, tours of the constituencies, representation expenses, money for transportation. In 2020, 86 MPs did not have a single parliamentary question, or a third of them, which is worrying. “
In parliamentary scrutiny, the ruling party and its partners asked the fewest questions.
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