Not a single member of the Cabinet was in a conflict of interest situation, Parliament's anti-corruption, conflict of interests and parliamentary ethics committee, decided on March 11 2010.

All the Cabinet ministers’ declarations on possible conflicts complied with the law, the committees decided. Those ministers who had positions - or who had shares in - private companies before their appointments to the Cabinet in July 2009, had resigned their positions.

This occurred within a month of taking office as stipulated by law. The committee’s decision ends the row that started after complaints from the opposition centre-right party Order, Law and Justice party at the beginning of the year.

On January 14 2010, the party’s leader Yane Yanev asked Prime Minister Boiko Borissov to remove 11 of his Cabinet ministers, alleging that they were in breach of the Conflict of Interest Act.

Yanev has sent his party's findings about the 11 ministers' alleged conflict of interests to Parliament's anti-corruption, conflict of interests and parliamentary ethics committee.

According to OLJ, only four of Borissov's 15 ministers did not have flaws in their conflict of interest declarations. These were Labour and Social Policy Minister Totyu Mladenov, Defence Minister Nikolai Mladenov, Justice Minister Margarita Popova and Sport Minister Svilen Neikov. All the rest, according to an OLJ statement in January 2010, still had ownerships, or were still on the management board, of nearly 50 companies, so breaching the Conflict of Interest Act.