June 9 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's minister of regional development Grozdan Karadjov said on Thursday that he has submitted his resignation, citing disagreements within the government over the funding that the ministry stands to receive under a planned state budget revision.
Karadjov's resignation comes a day after the leader of his party There Is Such a People (TISP), a junior partner in the ruling coalition, threatened that TISP will leave the government.
The proposed budget revision does not envisage financing to cover exisiting deficits and costs for the completion of a motorway linking Sofia and the coastal city of Varna and an expressway in the northwest of the country, Karadjov told a news conference broadcast by state television BNT.
Besides Karadjov, TISP has three cabinet ministers and 25 members of parliament (MPs) in the 240-seat parliament.
The four political formations participating in the government - We Continue the Change, led by prime minister Kiril Petkov, the Bulgarian Socialist Party, TISP and the anti-status quo, pro-reform Democratic Bulgaria coalition - hold a majority of 134 MPs in the 240-seat National Assembly.
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