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The Covid-19 situation calls for expert decisions published on 4/20/21 11:54 AM
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At the end of parliament’s first workday – 15 April – the government press service announced that the Council of Ministers was dissolving the National Operational Headquarters for combatting the pandemic. The decision was made public without any motives or any concrete information on how coordination of the efforts to check the spread of Covid-19 would be affected. The news of the Headquarters’ dissolution caused bewilderment among health experts who hastened to point out that whatever the political situation in the country there has to be a coordinating body. They all agreed that the situation calls for the National Operational Headquarters to continue its work.
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In the 45th National Assembly, Borissov’s GERB has 75 out of 240 seats. The other five parties and coalitions in Parliament have said that they would not support a new GERB government.
During his presentation of the proposed GERB Cabinet line-up, Borissov called on Mitov to hold the talks with other political parties in Parliament as quickly as possible.
“Take the mandate, we have a duty to talk it out … On Thursday [April 22], we will announce whether we have achieved something or not,” he said during a Facebook livestream.
After the mandate-handing ceremony, Mitov told reporters that GERB extend invitations for talks to centre-right Democratic Bulgaria and cable television presenter Slavi Trifonov’s ITN.
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