The seventh parliamentary elections for the last three years will be held in October. This is happening after the final and unsuccessful completion of the procedures for broadcasting a regular government by this Parliament.
The date depends on the speed with which the head of state Rumen Radev will carry out the procedure for appointing a caretaker government. The three possibilities are October 13, 20, or 27.
The president issues a decree to schedule the elections two months before the specified date, simultaneously appointing an interim government, BNR recalls.
With the return of the third mandate to form a regular government as unfulfilled, the next point of Article 99 of the Constitution is triggered, which says that the president, after consulting the parliamentary groups on the proposal of the candidate for caretaker prime minister, appoints a caretaker government and schedules new elections within two months. The caretaker prime minister is appointed from among 10 people who hold senior government positions. So far, it is clear that the Speaker of the Parliament Raya Nazaryan refused Radev to be acting Prime Minister yesterday.
But also then, Dimitar Glavchev, who is currently the chairman of the Audit Chamber, publicly confirmed that if the president offered him to remain as prime minister, he would agree. There is no information whether Radev has already talked to Glavchev on the subject.
According to the so-called home book possible prime ministers are also the deputy chairmen of the Audit Chamber Gorica Grancharova – Kozareva and Toshko Todorov. However, as of 2022, their 7-year term has expired. They were elected to this post in 2015, and Grancharova-Kozareva is currently acting as chairman until Glavchev returns as the incumbent.
The National Assembly never elected an ombudsman and his deputy, after Diana Kovacheva left as a judge in Strasbourg, and her deputy resigned and the parliament released her.
Among the possible prime ministers, the governor of the BNB or a deputy governor remain, but already at the end of March this year, Dimitar Radev publicly announced reasons for incompatibility, after he was then invited by the head of state for a conversation. Apart from the fact that it is not a good idea for the bank to get involved in politics, he listed legal arguments that a representative of the BNB cannot take over the post.
"There is a conflict with European legislation. The Governor of the Central Bank and his role are explicitly defined. These positions cannot be reconciled", said Dimitar Radev at the time.