The Bliznashki Government was the ninety-third
cabinet of Bulgaria which took office on 6 August 2014, following the resignation of the
previous government. This cabinet was a
caretaker government
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of
technocrats
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designated to serve only until a new government could be elected with a popular mandate. The government, led by Prime Minister
Georgi Bliznashki, was set up by
President
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Rosen Plevneliev
Rosen Asenov Plevneliev (, born 14 May 1964) is a Bulgarian politician who served as the 4th President of Bulgaria from 2012 to 2017. Affiliated with the GERB party, he previously served as Minister of Regional Development and Public Works fro ...
. A new government was formed after the
early parliamentary elections on 5 October 2014.
Cabinet
Medarova appointment and pull out
On 8 August 2014 the president Rosen Plevneliev appointed the
judge
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Krasimira Medarova, a former chief of the Central Election Committee, as the minister responsible for conducting the upcoming parliamentary elections. Two days later, on 10 August 2014, Medarova stepped down due to criticism for her former job as a chief of the Central Election Committee. Bliznashki gave up trying to appoint a separate elections minister, and instead announced that he will personally oversee the organisation of the elections.
Miscellaneous
According to some media sources, this is the first post-1989 cabinet without any known former agents affiliated with the
Committee for State Security.
External links
Cabinet Composition
(Bulgarian)
See also
* History of Bulgaria since 1989
References
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Bulgarian governments
2014 establishments in Bulgaria