Bulgarias parliament ratified on Friday the Treaty of Lisbon, becoming the sixth EU member state to approve it after Hungary, Slovenia, Malta, Romania and France. A total of 199 MPs voted in favour, 15 of them stood against and one abstained from voting at the session. Ministers, constitutional judges, Diplomatic Corpus representatives and the Bulgarian MEPs presented in the parliamentary hall. Bulgaria initiated the ratification procedure on February 5 by tabling the Ratification Act for the EU Reform Treaty to parliament.