Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev handed the first cabinet-forming mandate to Rossen Zhelyazkov who is the prime minister-designate of the largest parliamentary group-GERB-SDS. Rossen Zhelyazkov announced the structure and composition of the cabinet, which will include one deputy prime minister and 19 ministers. Tomislav Donchev is the candidate for Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Innovation and Growth. Lyudmila Petkova is nominated for Minister of Finance. Daniel Mitov was nominated for Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Ministry of Interior will be headed by the current caretaker minister Kalin Stoyanov. Caretaker Transport Minister Georgi Gvozdeykov was nominated for Minister of Transport and Communications in Rossen Zhelyazkov’s cabinet. Caretaker Minister of Tourism Evtim Miloshev was nominated to head the Ministry of Tourism. GERB-SDS has 7 days to find parliamentary support for their draft cabinet in the 50th parliament, where the coalition has only 68 out of 240 seats.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the European Olympic Committee (EOC) will work and contact only with the new leadership of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee (BOC), elected at the General Assembly on March 19 . This was commented to the media..
Employees of the Road Infrastructure Agency will hold a protest action today at 12:00 under the slogan "Decent work - decent pay" demanding higher wages. The protest is organized by the two largest trade unions in Bulgaria - the Confederation of..
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Natalia Kiselova, is on a working visit to Albania to participate in the Parliamentary Assembly of the South East European Cooperation Process, at which the Bulgarian Parliament will assume the presidency of the..
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Agricultur al Academy presented Bulgaria's innovation and scientific potential in agriculture during..
A cargo ship carrying agricultural fertilizers got stuck in shallow waters near the entrance channel of the port of Burgas while..
Young people in Bulgaria are ready to be part of the change, but they do not believe that they are given the opportunit y, indicate data of a..
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