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Kardzhali in 2007. While working as an engineer she "transformed GERB-Kardzhali into a well-oiled machine that managed to liquidate the BSP as the second political force in the district and even depersonalize the MRF, which has always ruled there." She was
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Krushovitsa." GERB Chair Daniela Daritkova said the opposition had no right to request the resignation after they had
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343:, Karayancheva banned foreign trips by all MPs. On 26 March, she proposed that the Assembly suspend regular sittings and convene only for urgent or emergency reasons, with questions to Cabinet ministers to be solely in written form.
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and that access to parliament for journalists would not be restored. Karayancheva had previously said the decision to only allow representatives of state institutions in parliament was part of the measures to prevent the spread of
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on the stairs of the building demeaning
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