Bulgaria's president urges new government to focus on security and inflation

FILE PHOTO: Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev arrives to the Three Seas Summit in Riga, Latvia June 20, 2022. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev urged the new caretaker government he appointed on Tuesday to keep the Black Sea country secure amid the war in Ukraine and deal with the fastest rise in consumer prices in 24 years.

The European Union and NATO member will head to the polls in October for a fourth time in less than two years, after the coalition government of reformist Prime Minister Kiril Petkov collapsed in June just six months after taking office.