site.btaUPDATED PM-Designate, President, Parliamentary Parties Hold Talks on Caretaker Cabinet

Prime minister-designate Dimitar Glavchev arrived at the President's Office Friday morning for consultations with President Rumen Radev and the parliamentary parties in the 49th National Assembly.

The meetings are in fulfillment of Art. 99, Para. 5 of the Constitution which says that the President, after consulting the parliamentary groups and on the proposal of the candidate for caretaker Prime Minister, appoints a caretaker government and schedules new elections within two months.

Attending the consultations are Temenuzhka Petkova, Raya Nazaryan and Tomislav Donchev (GERB-UDF); Kiril Petkov, Atanas Atanassov and Hristo Ivanov (Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria), Jordan Tsonev, Stanislav Atanassov, Hamid Hamid (Movement for Rights and Freedoms); Kostadin Kostadinov, Petar Petrov and Tsoncho Ganev (Vazrazhdane); and Toshko Yordanov, Ivaylo Valchev and Stanislav Balabanov (There Is Such a People).

The Socialist party confirmed earlier Friday that they would not join the consultations.

On March 30, the President tasked Dimitar Glavchev to propose a caretaker cabinet. Glavchev had seven days for that. The President said he would not participate in the formation of a government, directly or indirectly.

GERB leader Boyko Borissov said early on Friday that he has not seen the list of ministers Glavchev would propose.

Glavchev is a former ranking member of GERB.