The Bulgarian political party "There is such a people" immediately returned the folder with the third exploratory mandate for forming a government. President Rumen Radev begins consultations on the formation of an official cabinet, BGNES reported.
The representatives of the political group of "There is such a people" - in the person of Toshko Yordanov, Stanislav Balabanov and Ivaylo Valchev, thanked the president for his trust for the third term.
We fully understand the difficult situation they have put you in with the unnecessary changes to the Constitution. We're glad the 9-month agony is over. We have constantly declared that elections should be held, said Ivaylo Valchev.
Elections are the highest form of democracy, we're going to hold this folder for just a few more seconds and return it to you empty, with an unfulfilled mandate, because that's the ultimate. From here on, let the people decide, Valchev added and immediately returned the folder to Radev.
One of the biggest vices of the outgoing administration was the drastic divergence, the president said for his part.
He announced that he was starting a meeting with all potential Prime Ministers for a caretaker cabinet.
The president declared his intentions to form a caretaker government as soon as possible to organize the upcoming early vote.
We will hold meetings today, tomorrow, and on weekends if necessary. I have also postponed my busy international program for the next 10 days, which included a visit by a foreign president and my official visits abroad, said Rumen Radev.
BGNES reminds that according to the new rules of the Basic Law, the President Rumen Radev can choose as acting Prime Minister from among several figures: Speaker of Parliament, Chairman of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) and Deputy Governors, Chairman of the Audit Chamber and his deputies, Ombudsman and Deputy ombudsman.
The current Speaker of the Parliament is Rosen Zhelyazkov from GERB-UDF. The current chairman of the Audit Chamber is Dimitar Glavchev, former chairman of the NA from GERB-SDS. Glavchev's deputies are Gorica Grancharova - Kozhareva and Toshko Todorov.
The governor of the BNB is Dimitar Radev, who is in his second six-year term as governor.
This week, the deputy ombudsman Elena Cherneva-Markova tendered her resignation for personal reasons. Kovacheva, however, in January, she was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as a Bulgarian judge at the European Court of Human Rights. /BGNES
