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Austria hosts leaders to discuss the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, in Vienna SOFIA (Reuters) -Long-serving Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Wednesday he will not lead the government his GERB party tries to form after the April 4 election, proposing a pro-European former foreign minister to replace him. His centre-right party, which has ruled for most of the past decade, lost a fifth of its seats amid public anger over rampant corruption that boosted new protest parties and d...

share Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov says that his GERB party will nominate Daniel Mitov, a former foreign minister, to lead the government it will try to form after the April 4 election. "I am choosing Daniel Mitov, because I want very clearly to underline our pro-European and pro-NATO position," Borisov told GERB lawmakers in a live streaming on his Facebook page on April 14. Borisov, who has dominated the Balkan countrys politics since 2009, said he would also quit his seat as a la...

Bulgarias GERB party will nominate ex-foreign minister for PM candidate Reuters 4 hrs ago SOFIA, April 14 (Reuters) - Long-serving Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Wednesday his GERB party will nominate ex-foreign minister Daniel Mitov to lead the government it will try to form after the April 4 election. "I am choosing Daniel Mitov, because I want very clearly to underline our pro-European and pro-NATO position," Borissov told GERB lawmakers in a live streaming on his Facebook...

Bulgaria’s Borissov says he will not stand as candidate PM April 14, 2021 GMT SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said Wednesday he will not seek to lead the next government after his center-right GERB party won the most votes in last week’s parliamentary elections but fell short of a majority. Borissov, 61, who has governed with an iron grip for most of the last 11 years, said that he would not “divide” the nation and will propose “another candidate for p...

In the 45 th National Assembly, the other five groups all oppose electing a government nominated by Borissov. It is expected that his proposed Cabinet will be rejected in a vote in the House. Mitov, right, with Antony Blinken, now US Secretary of State, in 2016. The best chance of getting a government voted into office lies with cable television presenter Slavi Trifonov, whose ITN party ran second in the parliamentary elections. Borissov said that undoubtedly, Trifonov was successful in show bu...

A petition addressed to the Treblinka Museum calling for the removal of a stone memorial with the word Bulgaria on it, and an apology from the museum for the word being there as a “grave mistake”, has raised the ire of two academics who supposedly signed it but did not. The petition is not backed by any leader of a representative organisation of the Bulgarian Jewish community. It says that it is signed by “Bulgarian citizens and recognised (current and future) opinion leaders”. Given th...

Corruption and a lack of media freedom in Bulgaria are “serious challenges to the US-Bulgaria bilateral relationship,” according to a joint statement by US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (Democrat) and Jim Rich, one of the committee’s senior Republicans. “The persistent corruption, declining media freedom, politicisation of the judiciary, and other threats to the rule of law pose serious challenges to the US-Bulgaria bilateral relationship,” read the joint s...

Democracy Doesn’t Happen Overnight December 17, 2020  • Sheri Berman Daniel Mitov, Bulgaria’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Marwan Muasher, Jordan’s former foreign minister, recently joined the Aspen Ministers Forum Fireside Chat series. Their dialogue provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on how a well-functioning democracy emerges. Bulgaria was part of the “third wave” of democracy that swept the globe at the end of the 20th century. One part of the globe seemin...