Bulgaria's Outgoing PM Eyes New Term - Deputy
Domestic | February 28, 2013, Thursday| 765 views
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Bulgarian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov. Photo by BGNES
Boyko Borisov will return as Bulgaria's Prime Minister if his center-right GERB party wins the upcoming snap elections, according to outgoing Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
Tsvetanov refused to comment on whether he will be Interior Minister in GERB's potential new Cabinet.
Borisov and his GERB government resigned last week amidst mass protest rallies against unbearable utility bills and wide-spread poverty that turned into a civil unrest against the political model of ruling the country.
On Thursday, Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev set a date for early elections - May 12, 2013.
The scenario of early elections is expected to take place after the third biggest party in Parliament, the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party returns the mandate to form an interim government. GERB and the Bulgarian Socialist Party have already rejected the mandate.
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