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Bulgaria: Recriminations fly as ITN quits government, and some quit ITN

June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Kiril Petkov, Slavi Trifonov

Recriminations, insults, mutual allegations of being mobsters and a threat of court action were the order of the day on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: Outgoing Cabinet minister, group of MPs quit Trifonov’s ITN party

June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Slavi Trifonov

Outgoing Sports Minister Radostin Vassilev and five members of Parliament told a news conference on June 13 that they were

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Bulgaria 

Drama over claims of ITN MPs defecting to back Bulgaria’s ruling WCC

June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Slavi Trifonov

The political melodrama following the departure of Slavi Trifonov’s ITN party from Bulgaria’s ruling coalition took another turn on June

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s WCC seeks support for Budget amendments, minority government

June 12, 2022June 12, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kiril Petkov, Slavi Trifonov

The We Continue the Change (WCC) party co-led by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and his deputy PM, Finance Minister Assen

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s PM: Put country above party, but ‘we are not afraid of elections’

June 10, 2022June 10, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Slavi Trifonov

In a video message on June 10, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said that he believed that there were people

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM ‘in no hurry’ to table ITN ministers’ resignations

June 10, 2022June 10, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Slavi Trifonov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov will not be in a hurry to table in Parliament the resignations of the four

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Bulgaria 

Opposition in Parliament seeks resignation of entire Bulgarian government

June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Kornelia Ninova, Slavi Trifonov

Opposition parties in Bulgaria’s Parliament want the resignation of the entire government and say that they will not vote in

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Perspectives 

The government of Bulgaria – what happens now?

June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Kiril Petkov, Slavi Trifonov

The first reaction of Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov to the statement by ITN party leader Slavi Trifonov that he

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Bulgaria 

Trifonov says withdrawing party from Bulgaria’s ruling coalition

June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Slavi Trifonov

ITN party leader Slavi Trifonov said on June 8 that he was withdrawing his party from Bulgaria’s quadripartite governing coalition

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