Bulgaria's Council of Ministers Wednesday decided to ask the National Assembly to take a vote of confidence on the overall policy of the Boyko Borissov Cabinet, the Government Information Service said.

A plenary debate on the motion is expected to take place on Thursday.

Combined, the parliamentary groups of GERB and Ataka hold 137 out of a total of 240 seats in Parliament. Therefore, barring an internal rift, the Government has a secured majority to push through the vote of confidence.

This will be only the second such vote since the procedure was introduced by the 1991 Constitution.

In the first such exercise, Parliament voted, 111-120, to defeat a vote of confidence asked by Philip Dimitrov's Union of Democratic Forces Government which then resigned.