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Ruling coalition divided over nomination for Bulgarian National Bank governor

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The deadline for nominations for a new Bulgarian National Bank governor expires today, 23 March.

The ruling We continue the Change is nominating the chairman of its parliamentary group Andrey Gyurov, MP Venetsia Netsova-Angova said for the BNR.

There Is Such a People party, which is also part of the ruling coalition, nominated the co-chairman of the parliamentary committee on budget and finance Lyubomir Karimansky.

Hristo Ivanov, co-chairman of Democratic Bulgaria called for unity within the ruling coalition. He stated it was not a bad thing to have two nominations, but that if the new governor was to be elected on the votes of the opposition that would raise a host of serious questions. 



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