A hot political week has begun, filled with many expectations, after the intense talks last year between GERB-SDF, "BSP - United Left", ITN and "Democracy for Rights and Freedoms - MRF". What is ahead and can we expect a first mandate and its implementation? BNT provides the details.
The political puzzle, which has been entangled for 4 years and is fraught with a severe political crisis, is about to be solved this week. The head of state Rumen Radev is expected to hand over the first governing mandate to the first political force GERB-SDF and to return it filled with a draft composition of a government headed by Rosen Zhelyazkov. According to media reports, the new cabinet will have three deputy prime ministers - one is Tomislav Donchev, the second was also clear after the BSP plenum yesterday - Atanas Zafirov - he will be responsible for the power ministries. The third deputy prime minister's position is for ITN, but we have yet to find out who they will nominate from the party.
The power formula is expected to be 11/4/4, as the ministers from "BSP - United Left" are clear. These are key figures:
Borislav Gutsanov- Ministry of Labor and Social Policy
Manol Genov- Ministry of Environment and Water
Ivan Ivanov- Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works
Ivan Peshev- Ministry of Youth and Sports
More ministries remain for GERB-SDF. Tomislav Donchev, in addition to the Deputy Prime Minister's post, will take over the Ministry of Innovation and Growth:
Daniel Mitov - Minister of Internal Affairs
Temenuzhka Petkova - Minister of Finance
Georgi Georgiev - Minister of Justice
Georgi Georgiev - Minister of Foreign Affairs
Krassimir Valchev - Minister of Education and Science
Georgi Tahov - Minister of Agriculture and Food
It is questionable who will take over the Ministry of Energy, it could also be Zhecho Stanchev from GERB-SDF.
The Ministry of Health may go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be headed by Silvi Kirilov. The economic department will also remain with the ITN.
It is possible that some ministers from the current cabinet will retain their positions. This will probably happen with Atanas Zapryanov and the Ministry of Defense and Valentin Mundrov – the Ministry of Electronic Governance.
The new government will have a coalition council and each party will be represented by three representatives.
"Democracy for Rights and Freedoms - DRF" will also have two representatives without having any claims to ministerial posts.