The President has the right to refuse to issue a decree on the appointment of caretaker government, has not violated the Constitution. The president could not find the right approach to the formation of a government in a complicated situation.
This was stated in a comment for BTA by the professor of constitutional law and acting Prime Minister in the period 08/06/2014 – 07.11.2014 Georgi Bliznashki.
According to Prof. Bliznashki, it can be regretted that Grancharova-Kozhareva and Rumen Radev did not agree on the possible names in the cabinet in advance, and it came to an “open public scandal, to a divergence of positions, which makes further joint work impossible activity between them“.
„This is a government that will act on his behalf, he appoints them.
In this sense, he has the right to express reservations, to oppose one or another candidacy, but all this could have been done in another way, and not lead to such a public outcome, which does not give the opportunity to any of both sides to take a step back“, Prof. Bliznashki also commented.
The professor pointed out that the president should do his best to name the right candidate for caretaker prime minister, which he described as a task of increased difficulty. He noted that there is no deadline for holding consultations with potential candidates, but the understanding is that it should be relatively short because the parliament is obviously exhausted and unable to produce a government. He added that Radev can re-invite Dimitar Glavchev as prime minister, but if he agrees, he must propose a new cabinet composition.
The situation is absurd and it was an unnecessary scandal.
All the time various suggestions were made, they obviously tried to pressure her (ed. Gorica Grancharova-Kozhareva) from all sides, Prof. Bliznashki also commented. He defined these actions as “naive political moves” and said that Grancharova-Kozhareva turned out to be a woman of character who defended her position with sufficient arguments and solidly.
According to Prof. Bliznashki, the president has “caught“ of the “suggestions of the PP-DB“, who have reservations about Kalin Stoyanov, but “the professional staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who expressed support for him, do not think so.
The president could not find the right approach to the formation of a government in a complicated situation, Prof. Georgi Bliznashki concluded.