Cabinet reshuffle

Acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev has issued orders appointing nine new deputy ministers across six ministries. Among the notable changes is the appointment of Alexander Yolovski, former Minister of e-Governance, as deputy minister, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing restructuring of governmental roles.

For decades, prime ministers' closest aides and advisers acted noiselessly and as far away from the lights of publicity as possible. They rarely aired their views and maintained "institutional silence," even after the end of their service. They were more effective by avoiding the kind of overexposure that has so often seduced the residents of the Maximos Mansion.

Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides axed his health, justice, defense and agriculture ministers on Monday in a widely expected reshuffle almost a year into his term.

The key posts of foreign affairs, finance, energy and interior were unchanged.

Changes to the cabinet are expected to be announced on Wednesday by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. 

Rumors of imminent government changes had been circulating since before the winter holidays.

Details are currently undisclosed from the Maximos Mansion; however, indications suggest a potential announcement of the reshuffle within the next few hours.

The cabinet reshuffle the argument goes, was a chance for a fresh start, a bid to reach out to society, to the younger generation and to other political groups. 

Claims of vote buying have been submitted in northwestern Bulgaria, the country's poorest region, interim Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov has said.

"There are signals reaching me" of "bags" already circulating in some regions, Gerdzhikov has explained in a reference to bags of money handed out or promised to people who "sell" their vote.

Caretaker Interior Minister Plamen Uzunov has denied demanding that his institution´s Chief Secretary Georgi Kostov resign.

Earlier, bTV broadcaster said citing its own sources that Uzunov had asked Kostov to step down.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev's Chief of Staff is the most likely option to take over as interim Prime Minister if a caretaker cabinet is to be formed later in December, local media report.

Cabinet reshuffles very rarely serve the purpose of solving significant political or practical problems dogging a government.

FM advises "reshuffle of small-town mindset"

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic has said that "the thesis" that his job in the cabinet is safe because he currently serves as OSCE chairperson-in-office was "very stupid."