Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on January 16 to elect a government headed by Rossen Zhelyazkov, following a month of talks hosted by Boiko Borissov’s GERB-UDF coalition, which won the largest share of seats in the 51st National Assembly at the October 2024 early parliamentary elections.
The Zhelyazkov cabinet is the result of an agreement between GERB-UDF, the Bulgarian Socialist Party – United Left and populist ITN, all of whom received ministerial positions. The government is also backed by Ahmed Dogan loyalists of the Democracy, Rights and Freedoms parliamentary group, without being represented in the cabinet.
This is Bulgaria’s first elected government since the Nikolai Denkov administration left office on April 9 2024, and the first GERB-led government since Borissov left office on May 11 2021. Since 2021, Bulgaria has held seven parliamentary elections, and this is only the third to produce an elected government.
The CVs of the Cabinet members are as follows, with the party quotas from which they were appointed in brackets:
Prime Minister – Rossen Zhelyazkov (GERB-UDF)
Former Speaker in the 49th National Assembly and Deputy Speaker in the 48th National Assembly, he has been elected to the National Assembly seven times on the ticket of Boiko Borissov’s GERB party.
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