Meglena Plugchieva, who was appointed as an adviser to acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev, has resigned. Plugchieva performed the role of foreign policy adviser to the caretaker prime minister, who on Monday also became the minister of foreign affairs.
This was reported to BGNES by sources from the Council of Ministers.
In recent days, Plugchieva and Acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev have been at odds over who should be appointed as foreign minister, after the prime minister decided after less than a week in office to remove the initially appointed diplomat Stefan Dimitrov.
A diplomat should be placed at the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a caretaker government, insisted Plugchieva, but Glavchev did not comply with her opinion and proposed Daniel Mitov for the post after Plugchieva herself refused the post.
On Sunday, in an interview with BNT, Plugchieva commented: "There are extremely good career diplomats. We are talking about an official government, which will include more experts, not politically coloured ones. I have been the ambassador of Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein three times, and in Cherna forest, but I have always been a political quota of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I respect the principles, it is not right for a person like me to take the position of foreign minister in an interim government"./BGNES
