Pavel Tenev

Valery Simeonov, a deputy to Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, overseeing the economy and demography, on Friday said he will not accept demands for his resignation from three opposition parties - the Bulgarian Socialist Party, the ethnic-Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, and Volya, led by the businessman Vesselin Mareshki.

Just two days after he was appointed, Bulgaria's new deputy regional development minister, Pavel Tenev, has resigned after media got hold of a picture from his Facebook profile, showing him giving a Nazi salute to figures of Nazi soldiers in the Grevin museum in Paris nine years ago.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has appointed three deputy ministers in the Ministries of Health, Regional Development and Energy, the government's press office said.

Svetlana Yordanova, master in accounting and engineer-chemist, will work in the Health Ministry. Until now, she was secretary of the ministry's National Council of Narcotic Substances.

The Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov signed orders for the appointment of three deputy ministers which are going to fill the staff in the Ministries of Health, Regional Development, and Energy, reported BGNES.