Maria Gabriel withdrew her candidacy for prime minister of Bulgaria

Maria Gabriel filed an official statement that she will not participate in the parliamentary procedure for choosing a prime minister of Bulgaria and will not propose the structure and composition of the Council of Ministers, reported BGNES.

At the start of today's working day, Gabriel withdrew her stated implementation of the exploratory mandate to form a government. This happened with the submission of an application to the Speaker of the National Assembly and the GERB-UDF parliamentary group. The document was submitted to the registry of the National Assembly at 9:09 am. It also states that Gabriel will not participate in the parliamentary procedure for the election of the Prime Minister and will not propose the structure and composition of the Council of Ministers, the press center of GERB specifies.

In her application, Maria Gabriel states that the "agreed "rotational" model of the exercise of executive power in the mandate of the 49th National Assembly assumed the replacement of the person exercising the powers of Prime Minister with that of Deputy Prime Minister and vice versa. in a predictable and undisputed procedure. The balance of political responsibility, according to the objective coalition weight of the subjects forming the majority in the 49th National Assembly, was a shared understanding during the negotiations on the priorities of joint management and the decision-making mechanism".

Maria Gabriel also emphasizes that "the coordinated refusal and reluctance to participate in the Gabriel-Denkov cabinet of 11 ministers from the Denkov-Gabriel cabinet, through form/form applications and the lack of agreement during the subsequent negotiations, renders the procedure for electing ministers meaningless chairman and members of the government. Thus, in practice, the development of the constitutional procedure cannot end successfully". /BGNES