site.btaPresident Radev Says October 20 Best Date for Snap Elections

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev Friday said October 20 is the best date for new snap parliamentary elections. Earlier in the day, he designated Bulgarian National Audit Office Vice President Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva as the next caretaker prime minister and gave her until August 19 to form a caretaker cabinet.

Also on Friday, the present caretaker Prime Minister, Dimitar Glavchev, backed out of his stated readiness to be named caretaker prime minister again.