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Political deadlock spurs search for caretaker government solution

Toshko Yordanov
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"This was not a presidential council, it had no authority to make decisions," said Toshko Yordanov, leader of the "There Is Such a People" parliamentary group. 

He said that during the meeting, convened in Parliament by "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria" (PP-DB), an argument broke out between the co-leaders of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), Deyan Peevski, and the PP, Kiril Petkov. 

Yordanov stressed the need for Parliament to get its act together and elect an ombudsman, a deputy ombudsman and a deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, so that the president could choose from the new names and appoint a new caretaker prime minister by September. This view was echoed by PP co-leader Assen Vassilev, who added that the current caretaker prime minister, Dimitar Glavchev, was "disqualified for a second term as caretaker prime minister".

The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) parliamentary group, Borislav Gutsanov, said that the parties should wait for the president's decision. 

The BSP believes that this Parliament is exhausted and should not make any more changes.

GERB did not attend the session.

Speaking to the media, DPS co-leader Delyan Peevski said that President Rumen Radev had "trampled on the constitution" by refusing to accept the draft cabinet proposed yesterday by caretaker prime minister-designate Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva. He described Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov as a "professional".  "I will personally invite him to be the leader of my party list," Peevski said, without answering a question about whether he meant the DPS or a new party he would form.

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