02.06.2021 23:30; Victor Ivanov, Joanna Ruseva
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STOYCHO KATSAROV
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Elects former mayor, linked to former minister Nikolay Tsonev, to contact lawmakers after election
Although there is no National Assembly, Parliamentary Minister of Health Stoycho Katsarov has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary. This became clear after the appointment appeared in the Administrative Register.
The salary of the parliamentary secretary is determined according to the classifier of positions in the administration and can reach up to BGN 3,700 per month as the main one, above which allowances for length of service, education, etc.
The former mayor of Kotel Stancho Fikov has been appointed parliamentary secretary.
His name came up in journalistic investigations into the purchase of a series of houses for rural tourism in Zahariy Stoyanov’s home village of Medven. In 2008, as Minister of Defense in the triple coalition, Nikolay Tsonev was revealed as a buyer, personally and through relatives and a company, of six houses in Medven. The accusations were then made by the former candidate for mayor of the village Nikolay Fiykov. He is the cousin of the excommunicated and newly appointed parliamentary secretary Stancho Fikov. It was Nikolai who announced Stancho’s close ties with Tsonev.
After the fall of the three-party coalition, Tsonev was arrested on charges of bribing an investigator, but was acquitted in 2012. At the moment, Tsonev is considered one of the people close to President Rumen Radev, and it has even been rumored that he will become head of Prime Minister Stefan Yanev’s office.
However, the caretaker Prime Minister has chosen Ralitsa Simeonova, who was an expert in his cabinet as the president’s security and defense secretary.
“The Minister of Health forms under his direct subordination a political cabinet with advisory, control and information-analytical functions, which assists him in the formulation, development of specific decisions for the implementation of the government policy in the field of healthcare. The Parliamentary Secretary is part of the political cabinet and organizes the Minister’s relations with the National Assembly, with the parliamentary groups, with the standing and temporary committees of the National Assembly, with the MPs and with the political parties “, the Ministry of Health answered yesterday Katsarov has appointed a parliamentary secretary in a non-existent parliament.
“We note that after the parliamentary elections, the newly elected MPs take the oath, which begins the work of the 46th National Assembly, which means that until the formation of a regular government, the caretaker cabinet will interact with the National Assembly,” the ministry said.
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