From: kaygee@hardy.u.washington.edu (Kevin Giansante)
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Subject: RFE/RL January 4
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:22:24 GMT
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             RFE/RL Daily Report

                                No. 1, 4 January 1993


Bulgarian Government Approved.  On 30 December a new Bulgarian
government was approved by the National Assembly, Western and
Bulgarian media report. The cabinet is headed by economics
professor Lyuben Berov, a former advisor to President Zhelyu
Zhelev.  While most UDF legislators boycotted the vote, Berov and
his ministers won approval through a cross-party alliance of
deputies from the MRF and the BSP as well as UDF deputies who
broke ranks. Only BSP hard-liners and members of the
socialist-allied Fatherland Party of Labor voted against the
Berov government, protesting that it had been nominated by the
predominantly Turkish MRF party.  Kjell Engelbrekt, RFE/RL,
Inc./Bulgaria

Berov Presents Line-Up.  On the same day Parliament endorsed the
cabinet lineup as proposed by Prime Minister-elect Berov.
Although mainly consisting of technocrats, three ministers are
parliamentary deputies.  One of three deputy prime ministers is
Evgeni Matinchev, an ethnic Bulgarian elected on an MRF ticket.
The other two are Valentin Karabashev and Rumen Bikov from the
Alternative Social Liberal Party, a UDF member organization until
its expulsion last week.  Karabashev will share the job as deputy
premier with Matinchev and nonaffiliated Neycho Neev.  Bikov will
remain industry minister, a post he held in the previous cabinet.
In other key positions, Slavi Pashovski--Bulgaria's UN
ambassador--has accepted the post of foreign minister, and Stoyan
Aleksandrov--head of the tax department of the ministry of
finance--has been confirmed as finance minister. Valentin
Aleksandrov, a lawyer and defense ministry expert on national
security, is the country's new defense minister. Kjell
Engelbrekt,
RFE/RL, Inc./Bulgaria


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