New Names Pop Up in Bulgarian Govt Ministers Race

Politics » DOMESTIC | May 25, 2013, Saturday // 14:47
New Names Pop Up in Bulgarian Govt Ministers Race: New Names Pop Up in Bulgarian Govt Ministers Race The former Finance Minister in the Three-Way Coalition Cabinet, Plamen Oresharski, is the Socialist nomination for the next Bulgarian Prime Minister. Photo by BGNES

New names of candidate-ministers are circulating in Bulgarian media Saturday as the Socialist Party, BSP, is holding negotiations with the ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, for the forming of the new Cabinet.

The most mentioned names for Foreign Minister are those of Socialist MEPs Kristian Vigenin, Iliyana Yotova and Ivaylo Kalfin, and of career diplomat, politician and journalist, Ivan Gaytandzhiev.

Kamen Kostadinov from DPS is a favorite to become Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture or Transport.

Socialist Yanaki Stoilov, who was already said to become Minister without Portfolio, is the most likely second Deputy PM.

Mladen Chervenyakov is mentioned as Interior Minister, while Petar Korumbashev – as Energy or Environment Minister, and Emil Raynov – as Health Minister. All three are from BSP.

Another nomination for Environment Minister is Tuncher Kardzhaliev, Deputy Chairman of the DPS parliamentary group.

The former DPS Chairman of the Social Committee in the 41st General Assembly, Hassan Ademov, might be leading the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy.

The Culture Ministry might go to Nadezhda Zaharieva, also from DPS. She is a former Deputy Culture Minister and wife of prominent Bulgarian poet Damyan Damyanov.

BSP spokesperson, Angel Naydenov, could become Defense Minister.

At the May 12 early general elections, BSP, DPS, and the far-right nationalist Ataka overcame the 4% threshold to win parliamentary seats. The fourth party that made its way to the Parliament was the formerly-ruling centrist GERB, which won narrowly and was not able to form a Cabinet as the other three declared they would not offer support.

The names of the members of the new government are expected to be announced Tuesday after BSP and its nomination for Prime Minister, Plamen Oresharski, received last Thursday the mandate from the President.

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Tags: Plamen Oresharski, BSP, Sergey Stanishev, mandate, Cabinet, government, DPS, Ataka, VMRO, Bulgaria for Citizens, president, early general elections, GERB

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