Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

Parliament rejects presidential veto on 2018 National Health Insurance Fund budget

The Bulgarian National Assembly approved the bill on the 2018 budget of the National Health Insurance Fund for 2018 for the second time, thus rejecting the presidential veto imposed on the bill.

221 MPs cast their vote, 126 of them voting “for” the National Health Insurance Fund budget and 95 – “against”. The bill was first voted by parliament at the end of November and then returned by President Rumen Radev for further deliberation over the text introducing a temporary moratorium on the payment for new medicines. According to the president it gives rise to differential treatment of persons with medical insurance coverage, affecting a fundamental constitutional right - accessible medical assistance. 



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

A frosty morning followed by a calm and sunny day

On Wednesday morning, visibility will be reduced in some places in the valleys, plains and along the Black Sea coast. Minimum temperatures will range between minus 3 and 2°C, around minus 2°C in Sofia. During the day it will be sunny with highs between..

published on 11/5/24 7:05 PM
Ivelin Mihaylov of Velichie party

CEC Public Council: For the first time a party is left outside parliament for lack of 21 votes

For the first time in recent election history, the end election result leaves a party running in the election outside the National Assembly with a result of 3.999% (Velichie), 21 votes short of the electoral threshold, reads a position by the..

published on 11/5/24 5:19 PM
Kamelia Neykova

CEC sends CCTV footage from polling stations to prosecutors 

The Central Election Commission (CEC) is sending the prosecutor the video recordings of the ballot count in 7 polling stations where there is a discrepancy in the number of votes counted.  The prosecutors will have to check whether there is..

published on 11/5/24 4:19 PM