Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev on Tuesday gave the Continuous Change party of former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov the mandate to form a new government after the party of fellow ex-president Boiko Borisov failed to form an executive last December.
Radev has thus placed Nikolai Denkov — previously chosen by Let’s Continue the Change — at the head of the talks to reach a pact, according to information from the daily ‘Dnevnik’. In case of failure, the president will allow another party to try in third place to form a government before calling elections again, which would be the fifth in two years.
Denkov now has one week to achieve a majority, although everything indicates that the majority of deputies will turn their backs on the formation only six months after Petkov’s government suffered a motion of censure that removed him from the government.
«The task is very complicated, some people say impossible, but many problems are accumulating and reforms are being delayed. We need a government that will unite people and solve their problems,» the candidate said.
However, even if he succeeds in forming a government, the new executive would not have the necessary majority to push through the necessary reforms in Parliament. This would extend the institutional crisis and delay again the country’s access to European Union recovery funds, as well as its attempts to join the euro zone.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
