site.btaCaretaker PM-Designate Presents Cabinet Structure, Line-up

Caretaker Prime Minister-designate Goritsa Grancharova - Kozhareva presented the structure and lineup of her caretaker cabinet to President Rumen Radev in his office here on Monday:

Prime Minister: Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Ivan Kondov
Deputy Prime Minister for EU Funds and Minister of Finance: Lyudmila Petkova
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Innovation and Growth: Rosen Karadimov
Minister of Interior: Kalin Stoyanov
Minister of Defence: Atanas Zapryanov
Minister of Environment and Water: Viktor Atanasov
Minister of Energy: Vladimir Malinov
Minister of Regional Development and Public Works: Violeta Koritarova
Minister of Agriculture and Food: Georgi Tahov
Minister of Economy and Industry: Petko Nikolov
Minister of Labour and Social Policy: Ivan Ivanov
Minister of Justice: Mariya Pavlova
Minister of Health: Petko Stefanovski
Minister of Education and Science: Galin Tsokov
Minister of Tourism: Eftim Miloshev
Minister of Transport and Communications: Valeri Borisov
Minister of Electronic Governance: Valentin Mudrov
Minister of Culture: Nayden Todorov
Minister of Youth and Sports: Georgi Glushkov

This will be Bulgaria's eleventh caretaker cabinet since this form was institutionalized by the 1991 Constitution. So far, such interim governments have run the country between October 1994 and January 1995 (headed by Reneta Indzhova), February-May 1997 (Stefan Sofiyanski), March-May 2013 (Marin Raikov), August-November 2014 (Georgi Bliznashki), January-May 2017 (Ognyan Gerdzhikov), May-September 2021 (Stefan Yanev), September-December 2021 (Stefan Yanev), August 2022 - February 2023 (Galab Donev), February-June 2023 (Galab Donev), and April-August 2024 (Dimitar Glavchev). The first caretaker cabinet was appointed by President Zhelyu Zhelev, the second one by Petar Stoyanov, the third and fourth by Rosen Plevneliev, and the remaining seven by Rumen Radev.

It will be the second caretaker cabinet to be formed by the rules that were set in place after the Constitution was revised in 2023.

The majority of ministers from the Dimitar Glavchev Cabiney keep their offices, said Kozhareva.

She said the government will have two priorities: organizing and holding fair elections; and strictly following Bulgaria's Euro-Atlantic path. MORE