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National Assembly appoints Nikolai Denkov for Prime Minister

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Today's vote in the National Assembly approved the candidature of Academician Nikolai Denkov for Prime Minister. 132 voted "for", 69 "against" and there were no abstentions. Denkov received support from GERB-SDS (with one vote "against"), PP-DB and MRF.

The cabinet structure of PP-DB and GERB-SDS was also supported by 132 MPs, 69 were against, and there were no abstentions. The newly elected members of the Council of Ministers have been sworn in.

The MPs approved the renaming of the Ministry of Agriculture to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. The cabinet with Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov, proposed by PP-DB, will have just one deputy prime minister - Mariya Gabriel, proposed by GERB-SDS. The two will change positions on a rotational basis after 9 months. This is the first cabinet in Bulgaria with rotating prime ministers.

"Congratulations to all Bulgarians, we now have a regular government! We are returning the power of the parliamentary republic!" said in the sidelines of the Parliament the co-chair of We Continue the Change Kiril Petkov. He said he hoped for a full 4-year mandate of the Denkov-Gabriel cabinet.

A government between the first two forces supported by others is the most stable, GERB leader Boyko Borissov said after a regular cabinet was elected. On President Rumen Radev's accusations against the new cabinet, he commented that the President was supposed to be a unifying figure.

Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Kornelia Ninova described as "immoral" the agreement on the cabinet reached between the first two political forces and said she would not give them 100 days of tolerance.

President Rumen Radev claimed that his fifth caretaker government had dealt with all the tough challenges during its governance.
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A hand-over of office ceremony was held at the Council of Ministers. "We took the governance of a country in pause mode. We are handing over a state with well-functioning systems," interim Premier Donev said, expressing his hope for continuity. 

"Nothing is more normal than the Bulgarian parliament approving a regular government that fulfils its constitutional duties," said new Prime Minister Denkov. He said he was puzzled by the fact that deputy ministers from the caretaker cabinet had been dismissed from their posts by orders signed by caretaker Prime Minister Gulub Donev. This does not correspond to the stated desire for continuity, Denkov stressed.

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