President Rumen Radev did not accept Kalin Stoyanov to remain in the position of Minister of Interior and refused to sign a decree appointing a caretaker government headed by Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva.
The head of state asked Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva to present a new candidate for interior minister by 3:00 p.m. According to Radev, Stoyanov would not guarantee fair elections. The prime minister-designate said that she had consulted all the leaders in the ministry to make her choice and refused to replace him.
The President said that the elections would be held after October 20 and that there would be no swearing-in of the caretaker government on August 20. He called on the still active National Assembly to convene an extraordinary session in order to fill in the list from which the head of state can choose a caretaker prime minister.
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Monday will be mostly sunny. Cumulus will develop over the western half of the country and in some places there will be short-term..
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