Boyko Borisov Threatens To Return Mandate

GERB leader Boyko Borisov told journalists in Parliament he might return the government mandate next Wednesday, if no agreement is reached.

“As of today I am not optimistic about the government negotiations,” Borisov said, quoted by Dnevnik.bg. “Yesterday's option is not abandoned, but this is our tenth meeting already. And at every meeting we agree to have consultations and have a final decision at our next meeting. At the next meeting we don't agree on anything, because we need more consultations.”

Borisov added that by Monday the GERB negotiation team must make a decision. “If we don't reach an agreement, we take the mandate, return it on Wednesday and hold new elections,” he said. “I am not optimistic about the RB messages. Yesterday I phoned Radan Kanev to ask him to compare notes on KTB, but he told me he will call me back, after he talks with Meglena Kuneva and didn't call me back.”

The statement comes a day after GERB and the Reformist Bloc (RB) expressed their readiness to form a minority government, supported by the nationalist Patriotic Front and the left-wing party of ex-President Georgi Parvanov, ABV.

“ABV is inclined to support a GERB-RB government on important themes,” the chairperson of the ABV Parliamentary group Ivaylo Kalfin told journalists on Friday. “We are not for a centre-right government, but we would support such government on certain themes of mutual agreement.”

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