We had a long and frank conversation with Zhivko Kotsev. He submitted a request to leave under pressure from both Minister Kalin Stoyanov and high-ranking persons in the prosecutor's office. This is what the resigned Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov said at an extraordinary briefing in the building of the Council of Ministers, reported "Focus.
Kotsev himself said that there is a lot of speculation about his resignation. And the most important thing is that this resignation was used as an argument for the nomination of Kalin Stoyanov as acting Minister of the Interior.
"My resignation is not my personal act. I was invited to appear at the KONPI and the prosecutor's office, certain procedural actions were taken against me," added the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in response to a question.
Nikolay Denkov indicated that he had spoken with the president and was suspending the procedure for accepting the submitted resignation, and this was agreed with Rumen Radev.