Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is to name the caretaker cabinet on March 12 at 4pm Sofia time, a day earlier than expected, going by a report by Austria’s Der Standard based on an interview with the Bulgarian head of state.
The caretaker cabinet, expected to include 15 members, will remain in office until a governing coalition is formed after the May 12 2013 ahead-of-term national parliamentary elections.
Elections are being held ahead of schedule after Boiko Borissov submitted his government’s resignation on February 20, after violent incidents in Sofia following weeks of increasingly strident protests, that initially were about electricity prices and later encompassed a long list of grievances about cost of living and cor
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