Politics No new government in Bulgaria - new elections again
A third and final attempt to form a government in Bulgaria has failed. The small populist party ITN, which had been tasked with forming a new government by head of state Rumen Radev a week ago, returned its mandate on Monday. In talks with other parties, it was unable to convince the majority of 121 of the 240 MPs required to form a government.
05.08.2024, 14:45
SDA
There will now have to be another election in the EU country in the fall. This would be the seventh parliamentary election since April 2020. "The spiral of elections without success continues to churn", complained head of state Radev. He must now set an election date and appoint an interim head of government from a close circle of senior officials. This person will then put together an interim cabinet.
Unclear majority in parliament
After the early parliamentary elections on June 9, 2024, the candidate for prime minister nominated by the pro-Western center-right election winner Gerb-SDS, Rossen Zhelyaskov, did not receive a majority in the parliamentary vote. The pro-Western liberal-conservative PP-DB alliance had also returned the mandate it had received from Radev - just as ITN has now done.
According to a recent opinion poll by the Bulgarian Market Links Institute, another new election, probably in October, is unlikely to significantly change the current unclear majority situation in the fragmented parliament. Voter turnout would also be similarly low as in the most recent election on June 9.
