In Bulgaria, the idea of ​​​​premiership in turn was frozen after the drain of wiretapping

On May 22, the Bulgarian PP-DB and GERB-SDS coalitions agreed to form a ruling bloc and alternately replace their representatives as prime minister.After the wiretap of the working meetings of the PP-DB, the negotiations were frozenFormer Prime Minister of Bulgaria Kirill Petkov

The coalition of the parties "Continue Changes" and "Democratic Bulgaria" (PP-DB) suspended negotiations on the formation of a ruling bloc with the coalition bloc "Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria" and the Union of Democratic Forces (GERB-SDS) after leaking a five-hour recording of working meetings of the coalition PP - DB, which allegedly discussed future administrative appointments, reports Bloomberg .

The initiator of the freezing of negotiations was the leader of GERB, the current Prime Minister of the country, Boyko Borisov. The co-chair of the PP-DB coalition, former Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov denied the authenticity of the recording and accused the country's secret services of spying on politicians and trying to fail the initiative to form a new government in Bulgaria.

“The secret services know that if a new government is formed , then we will change their leadership and carry out deep reforms aimed at eradicating likely traitors [of the state’s interests],” the politician said.

The political crisis in Bulgaria has been going on for several months now. In the April 2 elections, GERB-SDS won 69 out of 240 seats in the National Assembly, PP-DB - 64 seats. Immediately after the elections, the co-chairman of "Continue Changes" Asen Vasilev said that the national council of the party ruled out the possibility of supporting the cabinet, which would include representatives of GERB.

In order to avoid early elections and finally start solving internal problems, on May 22, representatives of the GERB-SDS and PP-DB announced a political agreement. It is designed for at least a year and a half and assumes that for the first nine months the representative of the PP - DB Nikolai Denkov will be the prime minister, and for the next nine months - Maria Gabriel from GERB. During Denkov's premiership, she will have the post of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Nikolai Denkov, 60, a member of the Continue Changes party, served twice as the country's Minister of Education, most recently from May 2021 to August 2022. He is a Doctor of Chemical Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Maria Gabriel, 44, from the GERB party, has been working in Brussels in recent years. From 2017 to 2019, she was European Commissioner for the Digital Economy, from 2019 to May 15 this year, she was European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth. She resigned, having received a mandate from the President of Bulgaria to form a national government.

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The rotational scheme of government work has been used in Israel in the past. In 2021, eight parties signed a coalition agreement there, and the leaders of the two largest - Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennet - were to rule for two years each. However, a year later the coalition collapsed and new elections were announced.