Daniel Mitov Ready for Foreign Minister Role Amid Geopolitical Test in Bulgaria
Daniel Mitov, Deputy Chairman of GERB, has expressed his readiness to assume the position of Acting Foreign Minister
Bulgaria's PM-to-be, Boyko Borisov, met Friday with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at the congress of the Bavarian Christian Social Union in Nuremberg, Germany.
The news was made public Saturday by the press center of the GERB party. The GERB leader Borisov in Germany to attend the CSU congress together with the GERB Chair and Interior Minister nominee, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, and the likely new Bulgarian Foreign Minister, MEP Rumiana Jeleva.
Borisov has presented to Merkel, who is also the leader of the German Christian-Democratic Union, CSU's sister party, his government program, and has also introduced to her the future Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetanov.
"I would like to congratulate you on the indisputable victory at the Bulgarian Parliamentary Elections, and the mandate for forming a government that was given to you. As a future Prime Minister, you will have the crucial task of leading Bulgaria out of the economic crisis", Merkel told Borisov.
She also said that the fact that a fellow center-right party and fellow member of the European People's Party, GERB, was going to head another government in the EU was good news for her CDU.
In her words, this is going to help the EPP undertaking to promote a welfare market economy in Bulgaria and across the EU, and to aid for the carrying out of the necessary reforms.
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The "We Want to Vote" initiative has launched a new internet site aiming at assisting all Bulgarian expats, who wish to vote in the October 23 presidential elections.
Bulgaria's Supreme Constitutional Court is requesting additional documents and expertise in the case of the summer general elections vote in neighboring Turkey.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ordered the Bulgarian Ambassadors to Turkey and the US to give explanations for ‘disciplinary violations’ in the July 5 general elections.
The popular party of prime minister Boyko Borisov manages to keep and to even increase its lead ahead of the formerly ruling Socialists following their crushing defeat at July 5 general elections, a brand new survey shows.
The Bulgarian central prosecutor's office has announced that the most serious violations have been found in the Turkish polls from the Bulgarian Parliament Elections on July 5.
An inspection by the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry has found serious violations in the foreign sections during the Parliament Elections on July 5.
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