The election of President Rumen Radev as acting prime minister according to the "home book" remains increasingly scarce and scarce, but perhaps among the possible candidates for acting prime minister is Andrey Gyurov. Finally, the ombudsman Velislava Delcheva could also be the prime minister.
This was stated to News.bg by political scientist Lyubomir Stefanov in an analysis of the political processes in 2025 and which candidate for acting prime minister will lead Bulgaria through the upcoming early parliamentary elections in the spring of 2026.
He explained that after the governor of the Bulgarian National Bank Dimitar Radev announced that he would refuse to be acting prime minister, the remaining candidates from the "home book" of the head of state, which is increasingly unsuccessful and short-sighted, follow.
Raya Nazaryan, also as the speaker of the 51st National Assembly, will refuse to be acting prime minister. After that, the Ombudsman and Deputy Ombudsman, as well as the Chairman of the Court of Accounts, remain among the possible candidates for caretaker prime minister, Stefanov pointed out.
The expert explained that the goal of every government is to guarantee fair, transparent and objective early elections. "The caretaker government can cope with the task of guaranteeing fair and transparent elections, but it must have a clear assessment that this is an obligation not only of the caretaker government, but also of the citizens," he added.
According to him, the Minister of Internal Affairs, whoever he is in the caretaker government, is not the Wizard of Oz or a multi-armed Shiva, but is at the head of a structure that numbers thousands of employees and cannot be in every polling station. The Secretary General and the entire professional structure must assist the Minister of the Interior in organizing the vote, Stefanov commented.
The political scientist also commented on whether the president will enter the political arena with a party. According to Lyubomir Stefanov, Rumen Radev has not left the political arena since the end of his first and the beginning of his second term. "Will he organize a party or will he participate in some of the early parliamentary elections - perhaps, but not in those that are coming up at the end of March or the beginning of April", Stefanov pointed out.
According to him, Radev is aware that there is little time for a political reaction at the moment, arguing that there are two scenarios. The first scenario - the head of state to run for the elections with a party like NMSV and a cat in a sack. The second scenario - to invest time, resources, energy and people.
He pointed out that 2025 is a reasonable year. "At the beginning of the year, we said that the only one who can overthrow the government is the government itself. The cabinet underestimated the situation, the relations between large groups in society, the civil sentiments, and its natural end has come", Stefanov outlined the political dynamics in our country this year.
Lyubomir Stefanov hopes for sober thinking, pragmatism, and a political attitude to political issues in 2026.
Politicians should start behaving as such, speaking in political terms, and not succumbing to street obscenities. Citizens want decent, honorable and transparent political power, not authoritarian, despotic and lordly power," the political scientist also said.
He hopes that politicians will stop saying that Bulgaria's place is in Europe, and understand that Bulgaria is Europe.