Bulgarian people

The caretaker Prime Minister, General of the Reserve Stefan Yanev is 60 years old and has been in the military for 31 years. Since May 10, 2017, he has been the Secretary of the President for Security and Defense.

Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev called a snap parliamentary election on Tuesday for July 11 and appointed Stefan Yanev, his close security and defense adviser, as caretaker prime minister until a new government is formed.

Even after the recent spy scandals the response of the Bulgarian authorities remains evasive and shy. The expulsion of a Russian diplomat is a standard reaction and Elena Poptodorova is still waiting for follow-up move of the Foreign Ministry and the government.

A poll by Alpha Research has found that 63.2 per cent of Bulgarians disapprove of the refusal by cable television presenter Slavi Trifonov's TISP political party to seek to form a government.

If there is a caretaker government, Boyko Borissov will join in  the race for the presidency. This became clear from his words before the journalists who were waiting for him outside the hospital after he was discharged. Borissov did not show up in parliament for a hearing on the Recovery Plan: How could I appear like this, he asked.

The newly elected 45h National Assembly started its first session at 9:00 am on Thursday morning in Parliament's old building. The meeting is broadcast live on National TV and National Radio.

Today Bulgaria celebrates the birth of Geori Rakovski but the entire 2021 is devoted to his name.

It is 200 years since the birth of the ideologue, organizer and leader of the national liberation movement in Bulgaria and 40 years since the construction of the Pantheon of the revolutionary in his hometown.

The plenary hall of the new parliament may well be empty again after May 13. This is the critical date by which we will have known whether there will be another election because of impossibility to form a government, writes Trud daily.

When the wheel of post-election roulette stopped spinning instead of a fragmented and impossible-to-assemble cabinet, the second week after the vote strted with a dangerously clean horizon. For the first time in the new history of our National Assembly, a possible government can be supported by absolutely all parliamentary groups.

A deputy leader of the party formed around cable television presenter Slavi Trifonov, whose actions now are crucial to whether or not a new government of Bulgaria is formed, claimed on April 10 that Trifonov had tested positive for Covid-19 and was in quarantine.