Bulgaria's Ruling Party Refuses to Form Interim Govt

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov (L) and President Rosen Plevneliev (R). File photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's ruling center-right GERB party expectedly turned down the mandate it received Monday for the formation of an interim government.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev handed down on Monday the mandate for forming a new government to the biggest party in parliament – Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's center-right GERB, as the Constitution requires.

However, Borisov rejected the proposed mandate, as he had declared last week.

It was made clear already last week that neither GERB, nor the second and third largest parliamentary groups – the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms – are willing to form an interim Cabinet.

Once the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms also refuse to form a new Cabinet, the President will have to appoint a caretaker government, and then, with one single decree, adjourn the Parliament and schedule a new general election.

The caretaker government's term is up to two months as well, with its main task being the organization of snap election. The snap election will be held no later than mid-May.

Last week, Bulgaria's Parliament approved the resignation of the GERB government of Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, amidst unprecedented since 1997 protest rallies against unbearable utility bills and wide-spread poverty that turned into a civil unrest against the political model of ruling the country.

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