Op-ed: Bulgaria has overused the constitutional tool of caretaker governments to the point of absurdity

Bulgaria has a constitution, a parliament, and a president. What it has struggled to maintain, with remarkable consistency over the past decade, is an actual functioning government. Since 2021 alone, the country has cycled through five caretaker cabinets, two of them led by the same man. [ . . . ] The caretaker government was never designed to be a regular feature of political life. Under the Bulgarian constitution, it exists for one purpose: to keep the lights on and organise fair elections when a regular cabinet cannot be formed or has collapsed. It is, by definition, a stopgap. And yet between 2021 and 2026, Bulgaria spent more time under caretaker governance than under elected cabinets.
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