Tue, Feb 09 2010
Boiko Borissov, left, and President Georgi Purvanov
Photo: Georgi Kozhouharov
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In the final hours as Bulgaria awaited Boiko Borissov’s announcement of his cabinet, the current Government gathered on July 23 2009 for its final scheduled meeting.
Yane Yanev says his party will support Boiko Borissov’s government for six months, but is withdrawing from a meeting with GERB planned for July 20 2009. Yanev’s party is refusing to sign GERB’s proposed memorandum of support for the new government, which Yanev says is ‘not a European document’.
Having decided not to draw other parties into a governing coalition, GERB leader and prime minister-to-be Boiko Borissov says that only members of his party will be in his cabinet – in spite of an earlier statement that ‘experts’ from other parties could be tapped for government service.
As Bulgaria waits for prime-minister-to-be Boiko Borissov to announce his cabinet, media reports speculate about the changes he will make to ministries and key personnel.
Borissov wants Parliamentary support, not coalition agreement, for his cabinet
In the run-up to the Bulgarian Socialist Party’s national council meeting on July 18, opponents of Sergei Stanishev call for special national congress and Stanishev’s resignation, with one senior member saying some public attitudes to the party now run to hatred.
Extracts from the memorandum presented by The Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) to other right-wing parties asking for their political support for the new government.
Right-wing parties asked to sign a memorandum of support - not a coalition agreement.
President Georgi Purvanov will designate Sofia mayor to form a cabinet on July 16
First time the ratio of former collaborators is above 10 percent of records examined.
Weather conditions in Bulgaria on February 10-11 will become 'forbidding' according to the forecast.
260 Bulgarian soldiers landed at Sofia Airport from Kandahar on February 8 2010.
Having chosen its contestant to go to Oslo for Eurovision 2010, on February 28 Bulgaria will choose the song that he will sing.
Up to 90cm of snow cover in the region between Kurdzhali and Assenovgrad, while near Adrino snow cover is more than 70cm
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