Bulgaria's Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov arrives for a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Oct 4, 2023. (PHOTO / AP)

SOFIA - Bulgaria's four-month-old government led by Nikolai Denkov on Friday survived a no-confidence motion filed by the opposition parties.

The motion was backed by 71 deputies of the ultra-nationalist Revival party, a coalition led by Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the There Is Such People (ITN) party, while 143 deputies voted against it in the 240-member Parliament.

The opposition filed the motion on Oct 5 over the government's green transition plans

The opposition filed the motion on Oct 5 over the government's green transition plans.

At a debate on Thursday, BSP leader Korneliya Ninova said the government -- a coalition of the conservative GERB party, the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) bloc and the centrist Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) -- "is killing the Bulgarian energy industry consistently, categorically and adamantly. This poses a national security risk."

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The Denkov cabinet took office on June 6 this year.