After the elections in Bulgaria in October, the process of forming a government ended in failure.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev gave the mandate to form the government to Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Chairman Korneliya Ninova. President of the Socialists Korneliya Ninova invited the leaders of all parties to meet today under the title of “leaders’ meeting”. The leaders of only three parties from the parliament, which has a total of seven parties, sat at the negotiation table with the BSP today. Although the personal arrival of GERB leader Boyko Borisov, who has not been in the parliament for two years, created the impression that “the government is looking forward to partnership”, the parties could not come to an agreement.
Mustafa Karadayı, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, said that the country will hold new early general elections due to the absence of other party leaders and said, “We are going to early general elections. The next assembly will be similar to the previous four assemblies. Again, the number of two parties will not be enough to form a government. Still, dialogue. “This is not the time for ultimatums and conditional dialogue. We cannot overcome any crisis without resolving the political crisis we have been in for three years.” said.
The BSP will hand back the mandate to form the government to President Radev on Tuesday. In a statement made by the Presidency press center, it was reported that Rumen Radev will receive the BSP representatives on Tuesday, January 24 and will reclaim his authority to form a cabinet. On Tuesday, President Rumen Radev is expected to dissolve the current 48th People’s Assembly, appoint an interim government and set the date for early general elections in two months at the latest. The new election is expected to be held in late March or early April.
HOW DID THE POLITICAL CRISIS BEGIN?
In Bulgaria, on 22 June, the coalition government led by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov lost the vote of confidence in the parliament. The political crisis that started after the fall of the government deepened when other parties in the parliament were given the task to form a government and it failed. Following the failure to form a government in the country, re-elections were held on 2 October.
Although President Radev gave the task of forming a government to the Citizens’ Initiative for the European Future of Bulgaria (GERB), which finished first in the election held on October 2, GERB could not form a government.
The President later gave this task to the We Continue Change Alliance. The Continuing Change Party could not form the government either. (UAV)