Bulgaria’s prime minister-designate Boiko Borissov, in naming his proposed cabinet, had shown that he wanted his ministers to be new faces, free of conflicts of interest, independent of various circles and not the objects of political bargaining, mass-circulation daily 24 Chassa said the day after Borissov unveiled the names of his ministers.
 
Parliament will vote on July 27 2009 whether to approve Borissov’s cabinet.
 
The newspaper said that the Borissov cabinet had an average age of 45, and was made up of 25 per cent women, five people with backgrounds in economics or engineering, two lawyers, two medical doctors, an historian, an artist, four local administrators – and all had management experience, while most were new to politics.
 
Dnevnik daily said that in the Borissov cabinet, experts would have an overwhelming majority.
 
Bulgarian-language daily Sega said that huge power would be concentrated in four mega-ministries – economy and energy, which will also include the tourism portfolio; the interior which will also control Civil Defence and the 112 emergency number; transport; and the ministry of education, youth and science.
 
Several Bulgarian politicians from outside Borissov’s GERB party became preoccupied with the nomination of historian Bozhidar Dimitrov, formerly a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and reported to have worked with communist-era state security, as minister without portfolio responsible for Bulgarians abroad.
 
The nomination prompted the centre-right Blue Coalition to ask that when it comes to the vote in Parliament, MPs vote minister by minister, instead of the cabinet as a whole.
 
Blue Coalition co-leader Martin Dimitrov said that the nomination of Bozhidar Dimitrov had been an "unpleasant surprise" especially against the vote the previous day by Parliament to bar anyone who had been associated with the communist-era security service from leadership positions in Parliament.
 
Bulgarian National Television reported that the BSP’s Angel Naidenov said that he hoped that there would be no "underhand agreements and relationships" in achieving parliamentary support for the Borissov cabinet. Naidenov said that he hoped that the cabinet would win parliamentary support.
 
Yane Yanev, leader of the right-wing minority Order Law and Justice party, said that his party intended tabling lustration legislation to bar former state security collaborators from high public office.
 
Volen Siderov said that his ultra-nationalist Ataka party would be voting in favour of the cabinet, and spoke in praise of Bozhidar Dimitrov.
 
Ahmed Dogan’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which served in the outgoing cabinet and its immediate predecessor, has not yet decided whether it will support the Borissov cabinet. Senior MRF members said that the party would decide on July 26.
 
Faced with the negative reaction to Bozhidar Dimitrov, Borissov said that should any of the right-wing parties seek to twist his arm, he would return the mandate given by President Purvanov to form a cabinet and "let them form a government with the BSP and MRF".
 
Dnevnik quoted Bozhidar Dimitrov as saying that he was aware that he had become the stumbling block in co-operation between Borissov’s GERB and some right-wing parties. He had accepted the proposal, Dimitrov said, because of his friendship with Borissov and because "I know the woes of Bulgarians abroad and I can work hard".