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Bulgaria's Interior Minister will resign only at the request of the president

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Caretaker Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev will resign only if President Rumen Radev asks him to, he himself announced in Elhovo, where he attended the ceremony in memory of the border guard Petar Bachvarov who was killed on Monday. Requests for him to resign from the post were made by GERB and BSP after yesterday's incident at the border, in which the uniformed officer was shot from Turkish territory.

"Problems created in the last 10 years - reduction of the Border Police staff, construction of a non-functional facility along the border, systematic neglect and underestimation of everything here - cannot be transferred to the current leadership," Demerdzhiev commented. He added that since his first day as minister, he has taken action to restore the state and the facilities that ensure the lives and health of the people.
Ivan Demerdzhiev also said that the two Turkish citizens arrested for the murder are brothers. According to him, they did not try to cross the furrow, but were waiting for other victims.



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