Bulgarian President Rumen Radev will meet next Tuesday with the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Cornelia Ninova, to start the process towards new elections in the country after the BSP failed to form a government in the country.
A little earlier, Ninova has called for returning the mandate to Radev’s hands on Monday. «Let’s go to elections, voters will decide,» she has assured in the face of the new failure, which implies holding a fifth election in Bulgaria in two years, daily ‘Dnevnik’ has reported.
This comes after three attempts to form a government, the first one by Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), of former Prime Minister Boiko Borisov, while the second one by the Bulgarian party Let’s Continue the Change, of former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov.
According to the Constitution, the Bulgarian president must now dissolve Parliament, appoint a new interim government and call early parliamentary elections, which are expected to be held in late March or early April.
Future new elections will further extend the institutional crisis in the country and will again delay Sofia’s access to European Union recovery funds, as well as its attempts to join the euro zone.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
