49th National Assembly of Bulgaria

Despite each parliamentary group having the right to nominate a candidate for the Speakership role, it was contested only between GERB’s Rosen Zhelyazkov and Revival’s Petar Petrov. The process failed twice due to Petrov only receiving the support of his own party and Zhelyazkov not getting enough votes. The problem was resolved after PP-DB agreed to back Zhelyazkov's candidacy, with the agreement for him to switch places with Nikola Minchev in three months time.{{Cite web |title=Rossen Zhelyazkov of GERB-UDF to be elected as Speaker of 49th Parliament, rotation will be considered in three months - Българска национална телевизия |url=https://bnt.bg/news/rossen-zhelyazkov-of-gerb-udf-to-be-elected-as-speaker-of-49th-parliament-rotation-will-be-considered-in-three-months-317134news.html |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=bnt.bg |language=bg}} This was later changed, after the two parties agreed to a rotation government, in which the Prime Ministers would switch places simultaneously as the Speakers of the National Assembly.{{Cite web |title=Шефът на парламента ще се върти заедно с министър -председателя (Обзор) |url=https://www.24chasa.bg/bulgaria/article/15415001 |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=www.24chasa.bg |language=en}}

With Bulgaria being in the middle of an already 2-year-lasting political crisis, the GERB-SDS and PP-DB parliamentary groups decided to disregard their differences and embrace their common pro-European goals. The solution was to be a rotation government, many of whose Ministers were to be Independent experts. The respective nominees for Prime Minister were Mariya Gabriel,{{Cite web |date=2023-05-10 |title=EU's Mariya Gabriel nominated to be Bulgaria's new prime minister |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commisioner-mariya-gabriel-nominated-for-bulgaria-pm-gerb-boyko-borissov/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=POLITICO |language=en}} the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth and Nikolay Denkov,{{Cite web |title=Chemistry professor becomes newest Bulgarian PM candidate |url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/chemistry-professor-becomes-newest-bulgarian-pm-candidate/ |access-date=2024-04-05}} a former Minister of Education and Science. After long negotiations, Nikolay Denkov was sworn in as Prime Minister on June 6, 2023, while Gabriel assumed the role of his Deputy and Minister of Foreign Affairs.{{Cite web |title=Bulgaria's parliament elects new government led by PM Denkov |website=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bulgarias-parliament-elects-new-government-led-by-pm-denkov-2023-06-06/ |access-date=2024-04-05}} The two would switch places in nine months time. The main goals of the new Government were Bulgaria joining both the Schengen area and the Eurozone, as well as other legislative initiatives, such as a constitutional amendment in regards to the judicial branch in Bulgaria.{{Cite web |last=Tcherneva |first=Vessela |date=2023-06-27 |title=Cautious optimism: What Bulgaria's new government means for Europe |url=https://ecfr.eu/article/cautious-optimism-what-bulgarias-new-government-means-for-europe/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=ECFR |language=en-GB}}

The parliamentary group of Revival party initially won 37 seats in the National Assembly. However, 3 members later left the group, reducing their number of seats to 34. Similarly, the coalition PP-DB, which secured 64 seats, experienced the departure of 1 member, leaving them with 63 seats.

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