site.btaPresident Expects to Receive Proposal for New Caretaker Government from Prime Minister-Designate

President Rumen Radev will receive caretaker Prime Minister-designate Dimitar Glavchev on Monday, August 26, the President's press secretariat said Sunday. On August 22, Radev mandated Glavchev, the current head of the caretaker Cabinet, to form a new caretaker government. The President said its topmost priority should be to combat vote buying.

If the mandate is fulfilled successfully, Bulgaria will hold snap elections on October 27, the President said.

In his previous capacity as Bulgarian National Audit Office (BNAO) President, Glavchev was one of six senior office holders among whom Radev had to pick a potential caretaker PM. He was the only one who publicly declared his readiness to accept this position after BNAO Vice President Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva was designated to form a cabinet but the President rejected her proposal on August 19 after she refused to replace Kalin Stoyanov as her interior minister nominee.