Bulgaria’s president appoints interim government ahead of elections – Times of India

Sofia: Bulgarian President Rumen Radevi Current Acting Premier Stephen reappointed yanev To lead the interim administration until a new government is formed, the official state gazette showed on Thursday.
After failing to form a government after inconclusive elections in April and July, the EU’s poorest member state will hold its third parliamentary election on 14 November this year.
Radev, who is running for re-election in a presidential vote on November 14, dissolved parliament and reappointed most of the interim ministers, who have dominated the political dominance of the former centre-right prime minister for nearly a decade. After taking office in May. boyko borisov.
The new interim government will have to submit to Brussels a national plan on how it plans to use more than 6 billion euros from the EU’s coronavirus recovery fund to protect the country from new infections and the potential arrival of migrants from Afghanistan .
The President will present the new government after taking office on Thursday.
Yanev’s first interim cabinet has been popular among some for revealing that Borisov’s previous centre-south government had spent billions of taxpayers’ money on infrastructure projects without proper procurement, among other shortcomings.
Its two most popular members, the Minister of Economy Kirill Petkov and finance minister Essen Vasiliev, will not be part of the new administration as he is expected to announce his own political party soon.
Radev appointed Valery Beltachev, a Harvard University Graduated with a long track record in Banking and Public Finance as Interim Finance Minister.

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