Bulgarian PM Dispels Rumors He Is US Citizen

The caretaker Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Marin Raykov, was born on December 17, 1960, in Washington DC where his father, Rayko Nikolov, was a diplomat at the time.

The caretaker Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Marin Raykov, never had a US citizenship despite being born Washington DC.

The Cabinet's press center informs American law postulating that everyone who is born in the US automatically becomes American citizen does not pertain to children of diplomats.

Raykov was born on December 17, 1960, in Washington DC where his father, Rayko Nikolov, was a diplomat at the time.

Meanwhile, the Bulgarian Trud (Labor) daily reports the caretaker PM was moving to the State Residence in the Sofia suburb of Boyana under the requirements of the National Security Services.

Until now the family lived in their own house in the Knyazhevo district.

On February 21, Bulgaria's Parliament approved the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's GERB government amidst unprecedented since 1997 protest rallies against sky-high utility bills, monopolies, stagnation, corruption and wide-spread poverty, which later turned into a civil unrest and political demands.

Snap general election is to be held May 12, just two months ahead of the regular date in July.

President, Rosen Plevneliev, named the caretaker government on March 12.

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