The Bulgarian government expectedly survived a no-confidence vote over its failure to fight corruption, local press reported Friday.
The motion, filed by the rightist opposition in cooperation with centrist dissenters and independents, was rejected by a large margin -- 149 to 86 votes, no one abstained.
The vote was filed a week ago over the widespread corruption practices in the public sectors in the wake of a European Commission report criticizing Bulgaria for failing to address the issues of corruption and organized crime.
The no-confidence vote was supported by several independents and by the Bulgarian New Democracy parliamentary group consisting of 17 MPs who left in last December one of the governing coalition parties, the National Movement for Stability and Progress (NMSP).
However, the opposition this time managed to attract only one vote from the governing three-way coalition -- that of Nikolay Kamov from the Bulgarian Social Democracy party, a junior partner in the Bulgarian Socialist Party-led leftist "Coalition for Bulgaria."
Kamov announced during Thursday's debates he would vote in favor of the no confidence motion since he failed to see any resolve in the governing coalition to cope with corruption.
This was the fourth no confidence vote the government of Prime Minister Stanishev survived. The first such motion was in April 2006 over the cabinet's inability to cope with the consequences from floods in Bulgaria. The second no confidence vote was in March 2007 over the government's failure in health policy, and the third in October 2007 over the crisis in education after Bulgaria's teachers went on a month-and-a-half strike.
Source: Xinhua
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