Bulgarian President Refuses to Approve Technical Government: He Didn't Like the Interior Minister
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev refused to sign a decree appointing a new technical government because he did not like the candidate for the post of Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov.
This is reported by the BGNES.
Radev is convinced that Stoyanov does not guarantee fair elections, so he gave interim prime minister candidate Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva until 15:00 today to replace him, but she refused.
‘The responsibility is on me, the decision is yours,’ Grancharova-Kozhareva said.
After that, President Rumen Radev said that the government would not be sworn in at parliament on Tuesday.
"There will be no swearing-in in parliament tomorrow. The elections are postponed until after 20 October. The government of Dimitar Glavchev continues to perform its duties," the president said.
The political crisis in Bulgaria has been going on since 2021, and since then, the country has held six early parliamentary elections. The last one, in June 2024, failed to result in the formation of a permanent government.
As The Gaze previously reported, in 2023, Bulgaria had the lowest life expectancy in the European Union.