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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will hold a snap parliamentary election, its seventh in just three years, on Oct. 27, President Rumen Radev said on Monday, following the failure of its political ...
Rumen Radev became Bulgaria's fifth democratically elected president when he was sworn in for a five-year term in January 2017. A former air force commander, Mr Radev is a relative newcomer to ...
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev gave the mandate to form a government on Monday to a small party that came sixth in last month's parliamentary vote, the latest attempt to build ...
The Zhelyazkov Government is the 105th and current cabinet of Bulgaria. It was approved by the parliament of Bulgaria on 16 January 2025. [ 2 ] The cabinet is a minority coalition government with ministers nominated from GERB, BSP-UL and ITN.
Bulgaria, the European Union's poorest member state and one of its most corrupt, needs a period of stable government to improve the flow of EU funds into its creaking infrastructure.
One of the first challenges of the new government was the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In February, defense minister Yanev was dismissed after he denied to call the invasion war, instead using the term "special military operation" as was used by Russia. [33] BSP also threatened to leave the government if Bulgaria sent military aid to Ukraine. [34]
On 8 June 2022 ITN leader Slavi Trifonov announced that he was putting and end to the coalition by pulling his ministers from the cabinet. He explained that decision by calling the government's policy in regards to North Macedonia ‘weak’ and blaming Finance Minister Asen Vasilev for the economic status of Bulgaria.
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's parliament on Tuesday voted in a government led by Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov, which is set to implement reforms that would lead the Balkan country into the euro ...