2024-04-16 22:50:36
Stefan Dimitrov was untraceable the night Iran attacked Israel
Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev is replacing the foreign minister in the caretaker government, “24 Chasa” has learned.
He proposes to President Rumen Radev to appoint Daniel Mitov as foreign minister and to release Stefan Dimitrov.
The change comes after GERB leader Boyko Borisov today expressed his indignation at the appearance of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stefan Dimitrov.
“If Glavchev doesn’t replace Stefan Dimitrov, there won’t be any support!” Borisov threatened angrily.
Unofficially, “24 Chasa” sources also explained that the change was not due to Borisov’s request. Stefan Dimitrov angered Prime Minister Glavchev on Saturday night when he was undetectable during Iran’s missile attack on Israel. He has also surprised several foreign ambassadors with his switched off phone. Hours after the attack, they wanted to know what Bulgaria’s position was. Some of them were frantically looking for his number, and they had no contact with their boss in the Foreign Ministry itself. Already on Sunday, the lack of contact and response from Minister Dimitrov provoked part of his team to ask whether there will be reshuffles in the ministry due to the unprecedented disappearance.
However, the untraceable minister published a status on social networks at four in the morning with a Bulgarian position that was not agreed upon. In front of his people a day later, he explained that the connection in Montenegro was difficult and that is why he had switched off his phone. Dimitrov was in Podgorica to collect his luggage.
As reasons for the personal change, the Prime Minister points to the need for timely and responsible coordination and communication between cabinet members, on the one hand, as well as with allies and partners, on the other, the Council of Ministers officially announced.
Stefan Dimitrov was appointed as an official foreigner at the last moment after the refusal of the initially proposed Ivaylo Varbanov. Dimitrov held the position of ambassador of Bulgaria to Montenegro.
Stefan Dimitrov is the brother of the former permanent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Georgi Dimitrov, who was fired from Foreign Affairs while Daniel Mitov was minister. The official reason for the dismissal was that he did not meet the requirements for holding the post. Georgi Dimitrov was exposed as an associate of the communist State Security. In the period 2002-2005, he held the position of foreign policy advisor to the then president Georgi Parvanov.
According to “24 Chasa” sources, under the influence of his brother Stefan Dimitrov, for days he surrounded himself in Vetsno with diplomats who take openly anti-Ukrainian and anti-Israeli positions.