Coalition council meets to discuss cabinet reshuffle

The coalition council of the Bulgarian government will meet today, July 23 to decide on the reshuffle in the cabinet.

The meeting is held against the background of 15 days of protests demanding the resignation of the government, the chief prosecutor and early parliamentary elections.

On July 15, PM Borissov requested the resignations of three key ministers: the Minister of Finance, Vladislav Goranov; Minister of the Economy, Emil Karanikolov and the Minister of Interior, Mladen Marinov.

They declared readiness to resign but rejected allegations for dependencies and insisted they had done their job perfectly well.

Reshuffles were discussed yesterday by PM Borissov and coalition partners Krassimir Karakachanov and Valeri Simeonov. Today the decision will be agreed with the leaderships of the parties and the parliamentary groups of GERB and United Patriots (minority partner in the governing coalition).