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Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet keeps pot boiling on fighter jet purchase

F-16B Portuguese Air Force |Bulgaria’s caretaker government under Prime Minister Marin Raykov sees the acquisition of new fighter jets for the country as a priority and is keeping the process going, although it will not be empowered to make a decision and there is no Parliament to vote on any such decision.

This emerged on May 7 2013, a day after President Rossen Plevneliev, constitutionally the Bulgarian military’s commander-in-chief, spoke out strongly in favour of going ahead with the acquisition.

Purchasing fighter aircraft to replace Bulgaria’s ageing Soviet-era air fleet has been on the agenda for more than a decade, in the hands of a succession of governments.

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