site.btaUPDATED CC-DB’s Kiril Petkov: Peevski Broke Kozhareva, Kalin Stoyanov Became Example of Captured State

Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria co-leader Kiril Petkov commented in a Facebook post the recent developments surrounding the failed formation of a caretaker cabinet.

“Peevski broke Kozhareva! Kalin Stoyanov became an example of the captured State,” his post reads.

Earlier on Monday, President Rumen Radev refused to decree a new caretaker government, proposed by prime minister-designate Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva because of Kalin Stoyanov's nomination for caretaker interior minister. 

According to Petkov, Radev is “doing the right thing, did not avoid taking responsibility and used his constitutional powers”. The appointment of a caretaker prime minister needs the consent of at least two people, which in practice led to a true division of powers under the new Constitution, Petkov said.

The responsibility for forming a caretaker government will rest with Parliament in the next days. MPs will have to expand the pool of potential candidates for caretaker prime minister, which the President can choose to designate, and include in it truly independent persons who enjoy the public’s trust, he said. According to Petkov, the fastest-track for this procedure is the Bulgarian National Audit Office [whose president and vice presidents are among the pool of possible caretaker prime minister candidates]. Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev himself was previously President of the Bulgarian National Audit Office, and Grancharova-Kozhareva and Toshko Todorov were Vice-Presidents, but their term in office ran out in 2022 and Parliament has failed to elect their successors so far.

“The long-term victory can only come with the next [early parliamentary] elections, when the people, with their votes, will have the chance to reclaim their State, where there is justice and freedom, and not dependencies, as was shown today,” Petkov said.

CC-DB Floor Leader Nikolay Denkov commented the situation as well. He wrote on Facebook that several people continue to live in the past, when force was used to rule the State, businesses and people’s lives. Everyone, except for those in question, has come to realize that their time is running out.

It’s time for a positive change in Bulgarian politics. “Delyan, Kalin and associates, you have no place in this future. It’s time for you to leave,” Denkov wrote on Facebook, apparently referring to MRF co-leader Delyan Peevski and caretaker Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov.

Earlier in the day, CC-DB MP Lena Borislavova said that the separation of powers was put into motion and the ball is now in Parliament’s court. Bulgaria is still a Parliamentary republic, the constitutional amendments have started working and one person cannot elect a government alone, she wrote on Facebook.