SOFIA, Bulgaria
The Bulgarian interior minister has resigned Wednesday after his proposals to replace the ministry’s chief secretary and the head of the State Agency for National Security were rejected.
Bulgarian State Television (BNT) said that Vesselin Vuchkov offered his resignation Wednesday and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov accepted it.
Bulgarian media reports say that Vesselin Vuchkov proposed to replace certain officials, including the ministry’s chief secretary and the head of the State Agency for National Security. But the cabinet’s legal department did not approve them.
Vuchkov had taken the post of Interior Minister on November 2014, as part of the second Borisov government.
The resignation of Vuchkov comes as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey is visiting Bulgaria. Prime Minister Borisov had made it clear, publicly, that he did not find it suitable to make changes in key institutions at a time when the head of the FBI was in the country.
James Comey met with Bulgarian PM on Wednesday and was scheduled to meet Vuchkov later in the day.
