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Bulgarian prime minister blames Russia for defection of his junior coalition partner Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov lost a no-confi

SOFIA (Bulgaria), August 27 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria’s president Rumen Radev said on Friday that he is asking the Socialist party, which came third in th

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party on Friday became the second political party to give up trying to form a new government since last month's inconclusive parliamentary poll, bringing the Balkan country closer to a third election this year. President Rumen Radev had asked GERB, the party of former long-serving premier Boyko Borissov, to try and lead the country after the anti-establishment There Is Such a People (ITN), which narrowly won the July 11 polls, abandoned efforts to form a minority government. But with just 63 seats in the 240-member parliament following the July el...

The GERB-UDF coalition, the second largest group in Bulgaria's new Parliament, refused President Rumen Radev's proposal to form a government on Friday.The coalition's Prime Minister nominee Daniel Mitov has turned down the exploratory mandate ...

Bulgarians are losing count of the scandals. There’s a Watergate-style wiretapping scandal. There’s an agricultural tycoon accusing the government of former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov of extortion. And there’s a state-owned bank providing hundreds of millions of euros to a small batch of favored companies. The country’s dizzying daily headlines feel more like plotlines from a hit mafia series on Netflix than actual events unfolding in a European Union member country ahead of an election on July 11.  The big question is whether this is finally a tipping point that spells a defin...