A provisional government was appointed in Bulgaria

An interim government led by Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev was officially installed in Bulgaria on Tuesday, April 9. About this service in Bulgaria Radio Liberty.

President Rumen Radev signed a decree appointing Glavchev’s government and officially calling early parliamentary elections for June 9, at the same time as voting in the European Parliament elections.

The interim government was sworn in and Glavchev took over from former Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov.

This is the sixth interim government appointed by President Radev during his tenure, and the first formed under the new rules adopted at the end of 2023.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the interim government is headed by Stefan Dimitrov, who was previously Bulgaria’s ambassador to Montenegro. First, the consul in Austria, Ivaylo Tsenov, was announced for this post. According to Glavchev, his candidacy was changed due to family reasons.

And about. Reserve Lieutenant General Atanas Zapryanov, Deputy Minister of Defense in Denkov’s government, became Minister of Defense, as announced.

Kirill Vatev from the Denkov government, who headed the department since the summer of 2023, remained the Minister of Agriculture, which is also important for Ukraine in relation to disputes over the import of agricultural products.

The next early elections in Bulgaria were provoked by the failure to form a new government under the agreement of the coalition parties in the rotation of prime ministers.

Let’s remember that on March 28 it became known that in Bulgaria there were people who refused to form a government and returned the mandate to President Rumen Radev.

In addition, Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov submitted his government’s resignation to parliament on March 5, a day earlier than planned, as part of a previously agreed round.