Velislava Petrova-Chamova and Galab Donev, who was the caretaker prime minister in 2022-2023, will take over as the foreign and finance ministers in the new cabinet, which will have to swiftly pass a new budget, set a debt ceiling to ensure payments for pensions and salaries and try. Velislava Petrova-Chamova and Galab Donev, who was the caretaker prime minister in 2022-2023, will take over as the foreign and finance ministers in the new cabinet, which will have to swiftly pass a new budget, set a debt ceiling to ensure payments for pensions and salaries and try. Bulgarian President Iliana Iotova gives a mandate to Rumen Radev, leader of Bulgaria's largest political coalition "Progressive Bulgaria" and former Bulgarian president, to form a new government, in Sofia, Bulgaria, May 7, 2026. REUTERS/Spasiyana Sergieva SOFIA, May 7 - Pro-Russian eurosceptic. SOFIA, May 7 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's President Iliana Iotova offered election winner Rumen Radev the mandate to form a new government as prime minister on Thursday after his Progressive Bulgaria comfortably won a parliamentary election last month, the eighth in five years. The eurosceptic former. Bulgaria is expected to have a regular government with Prime Minister Rumen Radev on Friday. There will be three deputy prime ministers in the cabinet of “Progressive Bulgaria“. Radev's Progressive Bulgaria has a majority of 131 seats in Bulgaria's 240-seat National Assembly, making it a certainty that his government will be. After weeks of unofficial discussions and party maneuvering, the final composition of “Progressive Bulgaria 's” regular cabinet has been formally unveiled.