Bulgaria’s Continuing Change party, led by former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, failed on Monday to form a government in the country, and the mandate has once again passed to President Rumen Radev.
After two attempts to form a government, the first by former Prime Minister Boiko Borisov’s GERB, the president is expected to allow another party to make a third attempt to form a government before calling elections again, which would be the fifth in two years.
«We have not been able to fulfill this function. Unfortunately, the list of objectives (…) has not received sufficient political support, but I am sure that the efforts were worthwhile,» said Nikolai Denkov, prime ministerial candidate of Let’s Continue the Change.
He also indicated that the talks on «what direction Bulgaria should take in the coming months». Now, Radev will have to decide to which political force to give the mandate to form the government.
GERB has reaffirmed, for its part, that it will not support a government headed by Democratic Bulgaria if it has the participation of Let’s Continue the Change, according to information from the daily ‘Dnevnik’.
The party’s spokeswoman in Parliament, Desislava Atanasova, explained that she expects that «if the third mandate goes to Democratic Bulgaria, she hopes that the party will first ask GERB for support».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
