Extraordinary parliamentary elections to be held in Bulgaria

Extraordinary parliamentary elections will be held in Bulgaria, Report informs citing TASS.

The country's 49th People's Assembly has run out of all opportunities to form a new government. Although the President of Bulgaria, Rumen Radev, gave the right to form a new government to the representatives of the There is Such a People party, they immediately returned it to the head of state without fulfilling the third and last mandate.

The representative of the party, Ivaylo Valchev, while returning the mandate, said they understand that the unnecessary changes made to the constitution put the President in a difficult situation.

Rumen Radev said that he will start meetings with potential candidates for the post of Prime Minister. He noted that he postponed international meetings due to these events.

According to the information, the Democratic Bulgaria coalition with GERB-Union of Democratic Forces Party was formed nine months ago. On March 5, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov submitted his resignation to the parliament. After that, the deputies started to resign. According to the agreements, the new government was to be headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maria Gabriel. However, this project did not materialize as the negotiations between the leading political unions regarding the future government were unsuccessful.