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Bulgaria's GERB party fails to form a government, new polls loom Reuters 3 hrs ago SOFIA, April 23 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's largest political party gave up its efforts to form a government on Friday, following a limited victory in this month's parliamentary election, boosting the spectre of a snap poll in the Balkan state. While centre-right GERB won the most seats in the April 4 polls, anger against widespread corruption in the European Union's poorest member state has left it without an outright majority or any potential allies in the fragmented parliament. Prime Minister-designate Daniel M...

Three days after receiving a mandate to attempt to get a government approved, outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB-UDF coalition – winner of the largest share of votes in the April 4 parliamentary elections – handed it back to President Roumen Radev. The mandate was handed back by the coalition’s prime minister-designate Daniel Mitov and GERB parliamentary leader Dessislava Atanassova. Borissov did not attend the ceremony. Mitov told Radev that the coalition had wanted honest and open talks with other groups, had made an effort and come up with a “team of speciali...

Send to Kindle The personality profile of the future prime minister depends on the profile of the government, but in any case this person should be an antipode of Borissov. The new Prime Minister must be an intelligent, educated man who can watch his language and work to the public benefit. To be anti-Borisov, not in the sense of chasing Borisov away, but to work and behave in a different way. This opinion was voiced in the studio of Nova TV by Chairman of the Strategic Council of the Head of State Prof. Alexander Marinov. At this stage, it is difficult to say what the chances are of forming ...

“Tough talks are now to be held, if at all,” stated in the morning program of bTV, GERB nominee for Prime Minister Daniel Mitov. The proposed cabinet is an amalgam, synthesis of experience and renewal - there are new people, there are ministers from the previous cabinet and we think this is the right solution for Bulgaria because we face many challenges, among them the economic recovery of the country, Mitov explained. The composition of the cabinet is a result of talks between Daniel Mitov and Boyko Borissov and they reached an agreement when choosing these people. "When we talked, we...

As expected, Slavi Trifonov’s ITN party and Hristo Ivanov’s Democratic Bulgaria (DB) coalition said on April 21 they were turning down an invitation from Boiko Borissov’s GERB party for talks on its proposed government. The refusal came a day after head of state President Roumen Radev handed a GERB delegation, including the party’s Prime Minister-designate Daniel Mitov, an exploratory mandate to seek to form a government that would have sufficient support in Parliament to be voted into office. Since Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections on April 4, in which GERB got the largest share o...