Bulgaria's GERB returns mandate to form government Author: National Assembly of Bulgaria / All rights reserved. SOFIA (Bulgaria), April 23 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party has decided to return the mandate to form a government handed to Daniel Mitov, the prime minister-designate named by the GERB-UDF coalition, GERB leader Boyko Borissov said on Friday. "The self-proclaimed parties of change have refused to even hold a dialogue with us," Borissov said in a live streamed address on his official Facebook profile. The GERB-UDF coalition holds 75 of 240 seats in parliament after winning 26.18% of the votes in the general election earlier this month. The president should now hand a mandate for the formation of a government to a prime minister-designate picked by the second-placed There Is Such a People - a new populist formation led by TV talk show host Slavi Trifonov. The party won 17.66% of the votes in the April 4 elections and holds 51 seats in parliament.