The eighty-seventh Cabinet of Bulgaria (in office from July 27, 2009 to March 13, 2013) was a
minority government chaired by
Boyko Borisov. The government was formed after Borisov's party,
GERB
GERB ( bg, ГЕРБ, translation=coat of arms, acronym for Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) is a conservative, Populism, populist List of political parties in Bulgaria, political party which was the ruling party of Bulgaria betwee ...
, won the
2009 parliamentary election. It remained in power relying on support from the opposition parties for almost four years before resigning following
nationwide protests.
Cabinet
Original Composition
Changes in November, 2009
Following the election of
Yordanka Fandakova as
mayor of Sofia
This is a chronological list of mayors of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, since that post was established after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. The first governor of Sofia was Petr Alabin.
Initially, the mayors of Sofia were assigned by the ...
, she was released from the post of Minister of Education and Science on November 19, 2013. She was replaced by
Sergei Ignatov, her former Deputy Minister.
Changes in 2010
Changes in January
Following the resignation of
Rumiana Jeleva
Rumiana Ruseva Jeleva ( bg, Румяна Русева Желева; born 18 April 1969) was Bulgaria's minister of foreign affairs (July 2009 – January 2010), the third woman to hold this office after Irina Bokova and Nadezhda Mihailova. Jeleva ...
from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs the following cabinet shuffle took place on January 27:
* Incumbent Minister of Defence,
Nickolay Mladenov
Nikolay Evtimov Mladenov ( bg, Николай Евтимов Младенов; born 5 May 1972) is a Bulgarian politician and diplomat who served as Bulgaria's Minister of Defense from 27 July 2009 to 27 January 2010 and as the minister of forei ...
, was moved to Foreign Affairs.
*
Anyu Angelov, former Deputy, was promoted to Minister of Defense.
Changes in March
On the 18th of March
Tomislav Donchev was appointed
Minister without portfolio, responsible to administer the relief funds from the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...
.
Changes in April
On the 21st of April
Anna-Maria Borisova (an independent up to that point) was appointed Minister of Health after the dismissal of
Bozhidar Nanev.
Changes in September
On September 29 the most recent addition to cabinet, Borisova, resigns, and is succeeded by
Stefan Konstantinov.
Changes in December
On December 20, Bozhidar Dimitrov tenders his resignation, effective February 4, 2011. No successor was chosen.
Changes in 2011
Changes in May
Aleksandar Tsvetkov resigned from his post on May 18 and was succeeded by
Ivaylo Moskovski
Ivaylo Moskovski ( bg, Ивайло Московски) (born 19 July 1972 in Pleven) is a Bulgarian politician and former Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications in Bulgaria.
Ivaylo Moskovski was born on 19 July 1972 ...
.
Changes in September
Having won his party's nomination for the
2011 presidential election three days earlier,
Rosen Plevneliev
Rosen Asenov Plevneliev ( bg, Росен Асенов Плевнелиев ; born 14 May 1964) is a Bulgarian politician who was the 4th President of Bulgaria, holding the position from January 2012 to January 2017. He was the Minister of Regio ...
resigned as Minister of Regional Development and Public Works on September 7. He was replaced by
Lilyana Pavlova.
Margarita Popova
Margarita Stefanova Popova ( bg, Маргарита Стефанова Попова; born 15 May 1957) is Bulgarian people, Bulgarian jurist, prosecutor, educator who was Vice President of Bulgaria from 2012 to 2017. She previously served as Minist ...
, having been nominated for candidate for vice-president for the election, stepped down from her position as Minister of Justice. On November 30,
Diana Kovacheva
Diana Kovacheva ( bg, Диана Ковачева, born 16 July 1975) is a Bulgarian lawyer and politician, who served as justice minister from 30 November 2011 to 21 February 2013.
Early life and education
Kovacheva was born in Sofia in 1975 ...
was approved by the National Assembly to take up her portfolio.
Changes in March, 2012
On 21 March the Minister of Economy and Energy,
Traycho Traykov, resigned. He was replaced by
Delyan Dobrev
Delyan Dobrev (born 1977 or 1978) is a Bulgarian politician. He was the Deputy Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy under Traycho Traykov, succeeding him as Minister in March 2012 following an energy crisis in the country which included the a ...
.
Minister of Health
Stefan Konstantinov, who was being criticized by his own party for failing to deal with the increase in drug prices, resigns. Konstantinov, defending himself, said that the lack of support from the ruling party was impeding the implementation of reforms that he claims were leading to improved healthcare.
Desislava Atanasova was his chosen successor.
Changes in January 2013
On January 28, 2013, the Prime Minister fired
Sergei Ignatov after a review on the Bulgarian National Science fund, carried out by the Inspectorate General of the Council of Ministers, confirmed mounting reports of ministerial mismanagement, including the hiring of unqualified people to the ministry and corruption in the granting process, over the past few months. The review was triggered by complaints from the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and
Sofia University
Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...
that the fund was used to funnel millions of
levs to unsound projects ignoring the merits of more worthy proposals.
On February 6, Academician
Stefan Vodenicharov was sworn is as the new Minister of Education and Science.
Resignation
On February 20, 2013 the Borisov government offered its resignation. Parliament accepted the resignation the next morning with 209 MPs voting "for" and 5 "against" with 1 abstention.
The move came after
nationwide protests demanded it step down. The protests started earlier in the year over
monopolies in the energy sector, which have resulted in increasing costs to the consumer.
Austerity measures
Austerity is a set of political-economic policies that aim to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts, tax increases, or a combination of both. There are three primary types of austerity measures: higher taxes to fund spend ...
, unemployment and
corruption were also reasons given by demonstrators for their discontent.
On March 13, 2013 a
provisional government
A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, or a transitional government, is an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of a newly formed state or ...
was set up, chaired by
Marin Raykov
Marin Raykov Nikolov ( bg, Марин Райков Николов ; born 17 December 1960 in Washington, D.C., United States) is a Bulgarian politician and diplomat who was appointed to serve as a caretaker Prime Minister of Bulgaria and minis ...
, and the
parliamentary elections were moved up.
See also
*
Second Borisov Government
The ninety-first Cabinet of Bulgaria took office on November 7, 2014. It was a coalition government chaired by Boyko Borisov. The government was formed after Borisov's party, GERB, won the 2014 parliamentary election. As GERB won 84 out of the ...
*
Third Borisov Government
The ninety-third Cabinet of Bulgaria took office on May 4, 2017. It was a coalition government that was chaired by Boyko Borisov. The government was formed after the Borisov's party, GERB, won the 2017 parliamentary election. However, GERB won o ...
*
History of Bulgaria since 1989
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