Outgoing Bulgarian President Petur Stoyanov dismissed with special decree his secretaries and department directors. Georgi Parvanov and Anguel Marin swore the oath of office at Parliament as the new President and Vice President of the Republic of Bulgaria at a solemn, extraordinary sitting of the Bulgarian Parliament on January 19. Parvanov and Marin will be officially inaugurated as Bulgarian President and Vice-President on January 22. Under the Bulgarian Constitution, the president and vice president elect are sworn in three days before the term of their incumbent counterparts expires. They will take office on the date on which the mandate of the incumbents expires.