/ world today news/ At an official ceremony in the Emblem Hall of “Dondukov” 2, President Rumen Radev will present the structure, composition and priorities of the future caretaker government.
With his decree, President Rumen Radev appointed the official cabinet. The lawyer and former speaker of the National Assembly, Prof. Ognyan Gerdzhikov, will be at the head of the post of prime minister for the next two months.
There are four acting deputy prime ministers in the government. In addition to the Minister of Health, Dr. Ilko Semerdzhiev will be the Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policies. He is well known to the system – he was deputy health minister in three governments and a minister under Ivan Kostov. He is also the founder of the National Health Insurance Fund. Brigadier General Stefan Yanev, Director of the Defense Policy Directorate, takes over defense and becomes Deputy Prime Minister for Internal Order and Security. The Vice Prime Minister for European funds will be Malina Krumova, who we remember as the director of the Managing Authority of the Operational Program “Environment” when it was frozen at the end of 2013. The international secretary of the BSP, Denitsa Zlateva, will be the deputy prime minister for the preparation of the upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU-2018.
Ironically, Chief Inspector Plamen Uzunov sits in the ministerial chair of his predecessor Bachvarova in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Uzunov was dismissed as director of the Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs-Plovdiv by the Minister of Power in 2015.
Budget officer Kiril Ananiev, who was Vladislav Goranov’s deputy, became financier number 1 in the next two months. He also participated in Bliznashki’s office, but as a deputy.
Ivaylo Kalfin’s deputy in the last cabinet, Galab Donev, takes over the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy.
The construction engineer, well-known in the private sector, Spas Popnikolov, has been appointed as Minister of Regional Development and Public Works.
Another curious shift, this time in the Ministry of Education. Former Deputy Minister Nikolay Denkov, who resigned due to disagreement with Meglena Kuneva and her team, now succeeds her.
Diplomat Radi Naydenov, former chief of staff of Saxe-Coburg Gotsky, takes over as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The investigator from the National Investigation Service, Maria Pavlova, will be the Minister of Justice.
The actor Rashko Mladenov, who has been retired since 2012 and works as a freelancer, takes over the Ministry of Culture.
Irina Kostova, who is the dean of the Hydrotechnical Faculty of the University of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy, became Ecominister.
The former chairman of the Agricultural Academy, Hristo Bozukov, joins the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
The railway specialist Hristo Alexiev becomes the Minister of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications. He is the deputy general director at the National Railway Infrastructure Company, with the department “Strategy and Administration”.
Assoc. Dr. Teodor Sedlarski, Dean of the Faculty of Economics of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, the economic ministry takes over.
The executive director of “Bulgargaz” Nikolay Pavlov becomes acting minister of energy.
In Angelkova’s chair in the Ministry of Tourism sits the deputy chairman of the State Agency for Tourism, Stella Baltova.
Prof. Daniela Dasheva, one of the greatest experts in Theory and Methodology of Sports Training, becomes acting Minister of Youth and Sports. She is the vice-rector for scientific, international and project activities of the National Sports Academy.
The official inauguration ceremony of the caretaker government will take place on January 27, at 12 noon in the Granite Hall of the Council of Ministers.
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