site.btaUPDATED Caretaker PM-Designate Alerts Prosecution Service about Pressure on Her

Caretaker Prime Minister-designate Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva handed a complaint to the Prosecutor General about pressure that has been put on her as she was trying to put together a caretaker government. "I will meet with the Prosecutor General and I will present all the facts that I have about the pressure," she said as she was approached by journalists after the President refused to sign the decree appointing her caretaker cabinet because Kalin Stoyanov remains Interior Minister. 

"I am not giving up the Cabinet I proposed. I fulfilled the constitutional procedure. I expect the President to comply with the Constitution, issue a decree on the government and schedule elections," she said. 

Asked if she she had received threats, she said she has not. "During the nine-day period in which I met with everyone [in the caretaker cabinet of Dimitar Glavchev and the new ministers-designate], there was a certain pressure about who should be and who should not be [in the cabinet]," she explained.  

The Prosecution Service put out a statement in the late afternoon, saying that the tip-off by Grancharova-Kozhareva contains "information related to the selection of caretaker cabinet ministers during the period from August 9 to 19, 2024".

The alert will be probed by the Sofia City Prosecution Office.