US EditionBulgarian President Calls Snap Election After Third Government Formation Fails
Bulgaria will hold its eighth snap election in five years after three parties refused to form a government amid protests against corruption and a contested budget.
- On Friday, January 16, President Rumen Radev announced a snap election after a third parliamentary group declined to form a government, saying "We are going to elections" and he will appoint a caretaker cabinet.
- Last month, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov's coalition resigned after weeks of street protests over corruption and a contested budget, shortly before Bulgaria introduced the euro earlier this month.
- Poll data show GERB at about 18% and PP-DB at about 14%, with around 20% undecided and half possibly backing a new party, Market Links director Dobromir Zhivkov said.
- Under the constitution, the president must select a caretaker prime minister from senior officials and set an election date expected in late March or April amid a fragmented parliament.
- Bulgaria has held seven snap elections since 2020, risking slower EU fund absorption, deterred foreign investment, and hampered anti-corruption efforts, while Asen Vassilev pledges reforms if securing at least 121 MPs.
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Bulgaria will hold extraordinary parliamentary elections again, President Rumen Radev announced today, after the centrist Alliance for Rights and Freedoms (APS) rejected his offer to try to form a government.
President Rumen Radev said Bulgaria should hold early parliamentary elections after the third party, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRLF), also received and returned the mandate to form a government on Friday, local news agency BTA reported in its English-language edition on Friday. The MRLF is the third smallest of the nine parliamentary factions, with only 15 members in the 240-seat parliament. The president said he had appointed the pa…
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev announced on Friday that the country will hold early parliamentary elections again. The upcoming elections will be the eighth in the past four years.
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