site.btaBorissov Asks President, Through the Media, Not to Pick Parliament Chair and National Audit Office Head for Caretaker PM

GERB leader Boyko Borissov said Thursday he "would never allow" Rossen Zhelyazkov, the Parliament Chair, to become caretaker Prime Minister - and "hopes it won't be" the National Audit Office head, Dimitar Glavchev, either.  "The only thing that I insist on, and what I will never allow in any way is for Rossen Zhelyazkov to be the caretaker Prime Minister, and I truly hope that the President won't pick Dimitar Glavchev either," Borissov told reporters in Parliament. 

Glavchev and Zhelyazkov, are in the pool of office-holders among whom the President will pick the caretaker Prime Minister. The pool is determined in recent changes to the Constitution and also includes Glavchev's deputy, the cetral bank governor and deputy governors, and the Ombudsman and Deputy Ombudsman. 

Both Glavchev and Zhelyazkov are former ranking GERB members.

"They would be associated with GERB. Not that Parliament did not vote for them unanimously but it won't be nice," he said. He went on to urge the President, through the news media, not to pick them for caretaker Prime Minister, "if possible".

Asked what would happen with the caretaker Prime Minister and if a constitutional crisis is possible, he said: "I have one person to answer such questions and that is Hristo Ivanov. I have supported everything he has proposed [as changes in the Constitution] and he thanked me."