Bulgarian socialists return the mandate to the president ahead of the fifth election in two years

24 Jan. () –

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (PSB) has returned on Tuesday the mandate to form a government to the country’s president, Rumen Radev, after becoming the third party to try to shape the Executive after the last elections.

The leader of the formation, Cornelia Ninova, who had already lamented on Friday the impossibility of forming a government, has explained that she has tried to give priority to recovery, the budget, judicial reform and the Schengen area in an attempt to unite support.

However, the talks with the other political forces in the country have not been successful and it will be the president who will now have to call elections again, the fifth since 2021, on a date to be agreed with the Central Electoral Commission.

The Bulgarian constitution does not set a deadline for dissolving parliament, but over the past year and a half, Radev has tried to call elections within a week or so. However, the president himself has been against holding the elections in March, so it is possible that they will be held at the earliest on April 2.

Ninova has condemned that Parliament has not offered him the necessary support to approve the budgets for this year, among other measures, according to information from the newspaper ‘Dnevnik’.

“This is a general failure for the 48th National Assembly,” he asserted before adding that, in his opinion, both the country’s political forces and the Presidency “are to blame for the political crisis” that Bulgaria is going through.