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The Council of Ministers building in central Sofia

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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 Current Cabinet

This is a list of the current (as of September 2010^[update]) ministries of the government of Bulgaria:

Office	Incumbent	Since	Party
Prime Minister	Boyko Borisov	2009	GERB
Foreign Minister	Nikolay Mladenov since January 2010, preceded by Rumiana Jeleva	2009	GERB
Minister of Education, Youth and Sciences	Sergei Ignatov since November 2009, preceded by Yordanka Fandakova	2009	GERB
Minister of Defence	Anyu Angelov since January 2010, preceded by Nikolay Mladenov	2009	GERB
Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime-Minister	Simeon Djankov	2009	GERB
Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime-Minister	Tsvetan Tsvetanov	2009	GERB
Minister of Justice	Margarita Popova	2009	GERB
Minister of Health	Stefan Konstantinov, preceded by Anna-Maria Borisova (April 7, 2010 - September 29, 2010), Bozhidar Nanev until March 30, 2010	2009	GERB
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry	Miroslav Naydenov	2009	GERB
Minister of Labour and Social Policy	Totyu Mladenov	2009	GERB
Minister of Transport	Ivaylo Moskovski since May 2011, preceded by Alexander Tsvetkov	2011	GERB
Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism	Traycho Traykov	2009	GERB
Minister of Environment and Water	Nona Karadzhova	2009	GERB
Minister of Regional Development and Public Works	Lilyana Pavlova since September 2011, preceded by Rosen Plevneliev	2011	GERB
Minister of Culture	Vezhdi Rashidov	2009	GERB
Minister of Sport	Svilen Neykov	2009	GERB
Minister for European Union funds	Tomislav Donchev since March 2010 [1]	2010	GERB

• Minister without portfolio in charge of Bulgarians abroad Bozhidar Dimitrov was incumbent from 2009 but resigned in 2011 because of affiliation with the former communist Bulgarian Committee for State Security.

In addition to these, there exist these ministry-level state agencies:

• State Agency for Information Technology and Communications (Bulgaria)

References

1. ^ Tomislav Donchev (36) - Minister for European Union funds (since March 2010), Sofia Echo / sofiaecho.com, April 1, 2010

External links

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