/ world today news/ The National Assembly voted and approved the resignation of Interior Minister Veselin Vuchkov.
With one vote, the deputies approved the resignation and elected Deputy Prime Minister Rumiana Bachvarova as the Minister of the Interior. 208 people’s representatives voted, 139 were in favor, 68 were against, one deputy abstained.
The proposal for Vuchkov’s release was submitted by the Council of Ministers to the Parliament on the afternoon of March 9, after Prime Minister Boyko Borisov had requested to do so in a short period of time at the end of last week.
The election of a new interior minister came after the resignation of Vuchkov, submitted to the cabinet on March 4. Unexpectedly and without such an item being on the agenda of the meeting, Vuchkov announced to the ministers from the “Borisov 2” cabinet that, in connection with a legal case surrounding his desire to elect a new chief secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and chairman of the National Security Agency, he was resigning.
According to Vuchkov, the new law on the Ministry of Internal Affairs implies a new procedure for the selection and corresponding release of Vladimir Pisanchev and Svetlozar Lazarov. In the reasons for his resignation, he indicated that the legal directorate of the Council of Ministers was of a different opinion. Prime Minister Borisov himself was of a different opinion up to that point, who stated several times in public appearances that there should be no replacement of Pisanchev and Lazarov at this stage, as both should be given the opportunity to prove themselves.
Already on the day of his resignation, Borisov qualified this action of Vuchkov as “small police tricks”. “They are busying me with petty tricks while I am trying to restore the state and they are serving this to me on a strategic day. Is this politically correct? Is it supporting the government, is it blackmail,” asked Borisov. “Do I deserve to be played these tricks on me today. With all due respect to them (without specifying to whom – note ed.), there would not have been a government at least four times before. Instead of getting down to work, they ask me riddles,” added Borisov. On the same day, he had meetings with FBI chief James Comey and a delegation from Azerbaijan.
Only a day later, Borisov surprisingly appeared in the National Assembly and announced from the rostrum that he wanted the resignations of Lazarov and Pisanchev because of allegations that he was dependent on the DPS and for this reason he did not want to replace the head of DANS and the chief secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the briefing after his meeting with the Azerbaijani delegation, Borissov also coined the phrase “they are holding me for a … grinder” precisely in connection with the accusations of dependence. Hours after Borisov publicly demanded the resignations of Lazarov and Pisanchev, both announced that they were submitting them.
In the same surprising statement before the National Assembly, Borisov also named Vuchkov’s successor – former Deputy Prime Minister Rumyana Bachvarova.
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