Bulgaria's new cabinet sworn in

Bulgaria's new government headed by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov of the GERB party was sworn in Monday morning. Bulgaria's parliament expectedly approved the structure of the center-right government of Boyko Borisov, leader of the winner in the recent general elections GERB party, voting 162-78. Bulgaria's new cabinet sworn in The conservative center-right GERB claimed 116 MP seats in July 5 vote, shattering Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev's Socialist Party and falling just five seats short of holding a majority in the 240-seat unicameral parliament, which made it easy for it to enter a wide range of informal alliances. Three other smaller right-wing Bulgarian parties - the nationalist "Ataka" party of Volen Siderov (21 MP seats), the rightist Blue Coalition of Ivan Kostov and Martin Dimitrov (15 MPs), and the conservative RZS ("Order, Law, Justice") party of Yane Yanev (10 MPs) supported the minority government of GERB. Thus the government was approved by a sufficient number of members of parliament, above the 121 votes required by the Bulgarian constitution. The formerly ruling Socialist Party and its coalition partner the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms voted against the cabinet. Borisov's GERB government is Bulgaria's second minority cabinet since 1989 after the one headed by Filip Dimitrov in 1991-92.

Bulgaria's new cabinet sworn in

The conservative center-right GERB claimed 116 MP seats in July 5 vote, shattering Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev's Socialist Party and falling just five seats short of holding a majority in the 240-seat unicameral parliament, which made it easy for it to enter a wide range of informal alliances.

Three other smaller right-wing Bulgarian parties - the nationalist "Ataka" party of Volen Siderov (21 MP seats), the rightist Blue Coalition of Ivan Kostov and Martin Dimitrov (15 MPs), and the conservative RZS ("Order, Law, Justice") party of Yane Yanev (10 MPs) supported the minority government of GERB.

Thus the government was approved by a sufficient number of members of parliament, above the 121 votes required by the Bulgarian constitution.

The formerly ruling Socialist Party and its coalition partner the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms voted against the cabinet.

Borisov's GERB government is Bulgaria's second minority cabinet since 1989 after the one headed by Filip Dimitrov in 1991-92.