Government of Bulgaria

The Council of Ministers building in central Sofia

The Council of Ministers (Bulgarian: Министерски съвет, Ministerski savet) is the main authority of the executive power in the Republic of Bulgaria. It consists of the Prime Minister of Bulgaria and all the specialized ministers.

After the compositions of the Council of Ministers is decided by the newly elected government, the deputies who are chosen to become ministers temporarily lose their deputy rights while being ministers. These rights are restored in case they are released from the Council of Ministers or the government falls from power. This is in contrast to how deputy ministers and other government officials are treated when they were elected as deputies.

Sometimes, with the purpose of preserving the political representation of different parties or groups in the Council of Ministers, one or more ministers without portfolio (lacking a ministry of their own) may be appointed.

The Council of Ministers office is located in central Sofia and is part of the Largo architectural ensemble.

Structure of the Cabinet

This is a list of the ministries of the government of Bulgaria that was appointed by the 43rd National Assembly of Bulgaria on 7 November 2014^[1] to govern after the snap parliamentary elections which were held on 5 October 2014.

Ministry	Minister	Party
Prime Minister	Boyko Borisov	GERB
Deputy Prime Minister - coalition policy and state administration; and Interior Minister	Rumyana Bachvarova	GERB
Deputy Prime Minister in charge of absorption of EU funds and economic policy	Tomislav Donchev	GERB
Deputy Prime Minister in charge of EU policies and institutional matters	Meglena Kuneva	RB
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor and Social Policy	Ivaylo Kalfin	ABV
Minister of Justice	Ekaterina Zaharieva	RB
Minister of Regional Development and Public Works	Lilyana Pavlova	GERB
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Daniel Mitov	RB
Minister of Finance	Vladislav Goranov	GERB
Minister of Economy	Bozhidar Lukarski	RB
Minister of Energy	Temenuzhka Petkova	GERB
Minister of Tourism	Nikolina Angelkova	GERB
Minister of Education and Science	Todor Tanev	RB
Minister of Defence	Nikolay Nenchev	RB
Minister of Agriculture and Food	Desislava Taneva	GERB
Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications	Ivaylo Moskovski	GERB
Minister of Environment and Water	Ivelina Vasileva	GERB
Minister of Health	Petar Moskov	RB
Minister of Culture	Vezhdi Rashidov	GERB
Minister of Youth and Sports	Krasen Kralev	GERB

References

1. "National Assembly approves Boyko Borisov as Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria". parliament.bg National Assembly. Retrieved 26 December 2014. External link in |website= (help)

External links

• Council of Ministers official website (English) (Bulgarian)