President to Make Her Choice of Caretaker PM Public in Coming Days

Dimitrina Solakova, Nikolay Trifonov

President Iliana Iotova holding consultations with representatives of Velichie, Sofia, February 10, 2026 (BTA Photo/Blagoy Kirilov)

Sofia,

10.02.2026 15:29

(BTA)

The nomination of the candidate for caretaker prime minister will take place in the next few days, President Iliana Iotova said here on Tuesday. She was speaking at the start of consultations with representatives of the Velichie parliamentary group on the procedure for appointing a caretaker government head.

The meeting concluded the series of consultations that the President has to hold under the Constitution before making her choice of a caretaker prime minister public.

She noted that the National Assembly will continue to work until the early general elections. "We must decide how to stabilize the country's finances," she said, adding that Bulgaria is working with an extension of the 2025 state budget - not an euro budget. "We have no protective measures for the most vulnerable. Prices are rising every day. Despite the desire and ability of the authorities to exercise some control, the results are not encouraging," Iotova commented.

"We have foreign policy commitments, some of which will have to go through the National Assembly. I have always wanted our country to be as predictable as possible," Iotova not.

According to her, the caretaker cabinet must first and foremost resolve the issue of the elections. They must be fair, transparent, and well-organized. "You became a hostage to the previous elections and, for the first time in our history, elections were annulled due to mistakes and abuses during the election process," Iotova told the representatives of Velichie.

In response to Velichie leader Ivelin Mihaylov's call on the media not to be "a tool in someone's hands," the President said that if the media had not reported much of what happened at the polling stations at the last elections, Velichie would not be in the National Assembly today. "Let us not put things solely in the hands of the media. Politicians provide very little information, which then leads to speculation. When there is no reliable information and transparency in institutions, monsters of rumours and speculation are born," she noted.

/RD/