PM Borissov: 'How can the President withdraw something that isn’t there?'

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said he was surprised at the February 4 announcement by President Rumen Radev, in which he stated he was withdrawing his trust in the government.

PM Boyko Borissov: “How can he withdraw something that isn’t there?”

“That is direct interference in the independence of the authorities. Precisely the opposite of what he’s always talking about,” the PM said.

Borissov added that there was no intersection in the work with the President, except at the consultative councils, at which “nothing gets resolved anyway,” he said.

“I am not interested in what the President had to say,” he said.

Borissov also said that the President did not give power to the cabinet to remove his trust from the ruling ones. According to him, Rumen Radev made a purely political statement.