site.btaTISP Leader Trifonov: Ruling Coalition Has Not Agreed on Candidate for Central Bank Governor

The ruling coalition has not agreed on a single candidate for central bank governor, There Is Such a People (TISP) leader Slavi Trifonov posted on Facebook late Sunday. Trifonov cited two interviews given by National Assembly Chair Nikola Minchev and Lena Borislavova, Chef de Cabinet to Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, in which the politicians stated that the coalition had settled on MP Andrey Gurov from Continue the Change as the candidate. There is one more candidate: Lyubomir Karimansky from TISP, Trifonov said.

Trifonov also protested the insinuations addressed at the TISP candidate. “Since it is my obligation to care for the coalition’s stability, I will not be the one to respond,” he wrote, opting instead to post in answer a video of Karimanski discussing the situation at hand.

Karimansky describes as impermissible the Government’s involvement in the National Assembly’s nomination for central bank governor, adding that he was unaware of the coalition having authorized anyone to speak on its behalf. “I am also unaware of a meeting at which the coalition partners picked one of the candidates as preferred,” he says.

Karimansky discloses that he had been advised to withdraw his candidacy. He also calls for the same professionalism that was demonstrated during his and Gurov’s hearing before the budget committee. Voting for the new central bank governor is planned to take place during a regular plenary sitting of the National Assembly this week.