"If the finance minister falls, so does the government," said Boyko Borisov, Bulgaria's flamboyant prime minister, three years ago. On February 18th he fired Simeon Djankov, his finance minister, who was also deputy prime minister. Two days later, Mr Borisov himself and his whole cabinet resigned. The former wrestler, bodyguard and police chief had hoped to become the first prime minister to be reelected after the fall of communism. That has never looked harder.
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