site.btaPresident Iotova Made Optimal Choice for Caretaker PM under Mutilated Constitution, Says Rumen Radev

President Iliana Iotova made the optimal choice for caretaker prime minister within the Constitution mutilated by the assemblage [a term used with with a negative connotation to describe a previous parliamentary majority between GERB-UDF, Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, who revised the Constitution, limiting the potential caretaker prime ministers to a specific pool of candidates], wrote former President (2017–2026) Rumen Radev.

Earlier on Wednesday, the head of State nominated Bulgarian National Bank Deputy Governor Andrey Gurov as a candidate for caretaker prime minister. On Thursday, the President will task him with forming a caretaker government.

“I hope Mr. Gurov will, through his actions, meet the expectations of Bulgarian citizens for fair elections, and I wish him wisdom, principled conduct, and resilience. Meanwhile, in its final hours, the Borisov-Peevski cabinet has given away one quarter of the State railway’s passenger transport services to a private company. In the style characteristic of Bulgarian privatization, the private operator will receive as a dowry the rolling stock and the trained personnel of BDZ,” Radev also wrote, referring to outgoing Transport Minister Grozdan Karadjov signing earlier in the day 12-year contracts with the selected contractors under the procedure for awarding passenger rail transport services. 

Rumen Radev called on citizens to vote “to put an end to the plunder.”