site.btaIt Was Best to Keep My Good Name - Caretaker PM Glavchev on His Decision to Not Take Up Post Again

Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev told journalists in Paris on Friday that he had decided to keep his good name by not taking up the post of caretaker prime minister for a second time. He said that speculations about dependencies of his, which he did not know about, had appeared.

Glavchev noted that with each passing day the political situation in Bulgaria was getting more complicated and tension had emerged. It has even reached the point of demanding the replacement of the first person in the state under the Constitution - the Parliament Chair. He described the situation as "absolutely inexplicable and without any reason".

Glavchev noted that he did not know whether President Rumen Radev's designate for prime minister was ready or came after Glavchev's announcement that he would not become caretaker prime minister again. The choice is of the President, as is the responsibility. After a government has done its job, to turn to another caretaker prime minister, this is absolutely within his powers and we will find out in the end whether it was right or not, Glavchev said.

Asked whether he thought ministers from the current caretaker cabinet would remain in the new caretaker government, he said the question was for the caretaker prime minister-designate. "The foreign minister will not stay for sure," Glavchev said. Glavchev is also caretaker Foreign Minister in his government. 

Asked about the nomination of the new caretaker prime minister, he pointed out that he had been working for nearly a year with Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva. The assessment of her work as caretaker prime minister will be given by the Bulgarian citizens, Glavchev said.

Glavchev is visiting France on Friday and Saturday on the occasion of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the press service of the Cabinet said. The Prime Minister will visit the Bulgarian athletes in the Olympic Village where he will wish them success in their performance. Glavchev will attend competitions in which Bulgarian athletes will participate.