site.btaPresident Rumen Radev to Continue Meetings with Potential Caretaker Prime Ministers

President Rumen Radev will continue his meetings with potential caretaker Prime Ministers on Friday, the President's Press Secretariat said.

At 12:30 pm Radev is scheduled to meet with Ombudsman Diana Kovacheva.

On January 24, 2024, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected Kovacheva as a Bulgarian judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Later, Radev will receive the deputy governors of the Bulgarian National Bank, Petar Chobanov, Radoslav Milenkov and Andrey Gyurov.

The President will meet with the vice-presidents of the Bulgarian National Audit Office Toshko Todorov and Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva.

On Thursday, President Rumen Radev held meetings with National Assembly Chair Rossen Zhelyazkov, the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank Dimitar Radev and the National Audit Office Chair Chamber Dimitar Glavchev, the presidential institution recalled. The series of meetings began after the constitutional procedure to form a regular government within the current National Assembly was exhausted following the return of an unfulfilled third exploratory mandate.

According to Art. 99 of the Constitution, after an agreement on a government has not been reached, the President, after consultation with the parliamentary groups and on the proposal of the caretaker prime minister-designate, appoints a caretaker government and schedules new elections within two months. After the recent changes to the Constitution, the head of State can choose between the National Assembly Chair, the governor or deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, the chair or deputy chair of the National Audit Office and the Ombudsman or their deputy.