Health care and Interior Ministry reform will top the agenda of the meeting between the three leaders of the parties in Bulgaria's ruling coalition, held in Bansko mountain resort on May 10-11.

The meeting will be also attended by all Cabinet ministers, Parliament committee heads and parliamentary floor leaders of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, National Movement for Stability and Progress and Movement for Rights and Freedoms.

The Socialists, who are the senior partner in Government, are expected to come under fire from their coalition partners over their reluctance to open up health care insurance to private funds, an issue that the three parties have agreed earlier.

In the weeks since the Cabinet reshuffle on April 22, however, Socialist politicians have come out to say that health insurance reform would have to wait until after the term of the current Government expires next summer.

Concerning law enforcement reform, the main issue would be the new agency that the Cabinet plans to set up, which alone would have the right to use wire-taps in their investigations, and whether it would remain under the authority of the Interior Ministry, as proposed by new minister Mihail Mikov, or be equally distanced from the Justice Ministry, the General-Prosecutor’s Office and the State Agency for National Security.

Coalition leaders are expected to make a press statement on the progress of the meeting at 3pm on May 10.