Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) would offer its partners in the ruling coalition, National Movement for Stability and Progress (NDSP) and Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) to form work groups to discuss the changes in the Cabinet, BSP executive bureau member Ivelin Nikolov told Focus news agency on April 16.

Most probably, the offers had already been send out, Nikolov said.

BSP’s work group, which includes outgoing Interior Minister Petkov, Nikolov and Evgenii Ouzounov, wants the work groups to hold two-way meetings by the end of the week. A three-way meeting would then be held to reach common ground.

Together with these meetings, there would be probably a meeting of the party leaders, Nikolov said.

The changes in the Cabinet come in the wake of a corruption row surrounding the Interior Ministry, involving even Interior Minister Roumen Petkov. Petkov resigned after the opposition 's fifth no-confidence motion against the Cabinet. During the parliamentary vote on the motion, NMSP abstained from voting, instead of supporting the Cabinet.