2024-08-05 16:19:44
“If President Radev offers me the position again, I will accept – because of the whole team we work with and there is nothing to be ashamed of. On the contrary – we do our job, in my opinion, decently. We held fair and transparent elections. I am ready to argue if someone says otherwise”.
This was commented by acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev when asked if he is ready to remain in this post for another term.
Earlier today, President Rumen Radev invited the Speaker of the Parliament Raya Nazaryan to “Dondukov” 2. However, she refused to be caretaker prime minister. According to her, if this position is occupied by prominent political figures”, they “will not contribute to the good tone and dialogue between the parties in an election campaign”.
Recent changes to the Basic Law, which the Constitutional Court upheld, limited Radev to choose a prime minister from only 10 people in the state. The “house book”, as he himself called the list, includes the speaker of the parliament, the head of the Audit Chamber (such as the current acting prime minister Dimitar Glavchev) and his deputies, the director of the BNB and his deputies, the ombudsman and his deputy.
In March, when Radev led the talks with the potential candidates, only Dimitar Glavchev accepted. His two deputies Toshko Todorov and Gorica Grancharova-Kozhareva also refused – they were very worried. Todorov even then said that his wife did not sleep for a month because of worry.
Rosen Zhelyazkov said “no” to Radev, and the leader of GERB Boyko Borisov was against having a bright party figure at the head of a cabinet.
The head of the BNB Dimitar Radev and his deputies Radoslav Milenkov, Petar Chobanov and Andrey Gyurov also refused. The latter is now on forced leave after the anti-corruption commission declared him ineligible for involvement in the management of a company.
And today there is no ombudsman – Diana Kovacheva became a judge in Strasbourg, and her deputy Elena Cherneva-Markova was considered by the president for acting prime minister, but she resigned while the selection process was underway in March.