The president of Bulgaria assures that the elections could be in October but rules out accelerating the process

July 12 () –

The president of Bulgaria, Rumen Radev, has assured this Tuesday that in the event that the country has to hold early elections due to the impossibility of forming a government, said electoral appointment would take place in early October.

The president, who has advocated not speeding up the constitutional process, has indicated that the ideal would be to convene them for early October so that the new parliament “has legitimacy.”

This has been confirmed in statements to the media after returning from a visit to Montenegro. Radev has indicated that he has no intention of pressuring the different parties to carry out the mandate to form a government after the resignation of the current Executive, who succumbed to a motion of censure in Parliament.

“It must be clear that the exhaustive process to form a government before the end of July leaves the Government and Parliament without activity, and this leaves many issues unresolved,” he warned.

In this sense, he has warned that calling elections in September “also entails risks” and has clarified that “excessively prolonging the process of forming a government can also lead to management decisions and personnel changes.”

However, he has not specified when he will return the mandate to the second largest parliamentary group in the Chamber to form a government, although he has indicated that it will be “in a matter of days.”

In this sense, he explained that in the event that the new mandate does not bear fruit, he will call all the parliamentary groups for consultations to sound out possible coalitions and support.

For Radev, the political crisis has worsened in the country and any party with ambitions to gain public support must make clear the solutions it offers. The Democratic Bulgaria party has shown its willingness to receive a third term to form a government.