site.btaUPDATED GERB Turns Down CC-DB Last Offer for Government

GERB-UDF Tuesday turned down the final offer of their former power-sharing partner Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) for forming a government. "GERB-UDF is not going to participate in attempts to form a cabinet on a second or third mandate. Let Bulgarian people decide via elections who and how should run Bulgaria," reads a statement undersigned by GERB leader Boyko Borissov and the party's deputy floor leaders Temenuzhka Petkova, Denitsa Sacheva and Raya Nazaryan, and made public by the party press office.

That practically paves the way to early national elections, which will be this country's sixth since April 2021. 

CC-DB's proposal was that the two group's floor leaders should sign an agreement setting out guarantees for reforms in the judiciary, the regulators and security services, with clear implementation deadlines; a prime minister who is a mutually acceptable figure nominated by GERB-UDF; and the current structure of the Council of Ministers remaining the same as in the Nikolay Denkov government.

As nobody has indicated any support for a CC-DB government, GERB's decision means that the procedure will come to a third mandate that the President will offer to one of the smaller parliamentary parties of his choice, and BSP for Bulgaria and MRF have already said that they would not even try, and Vazrazhdane said that while they are ready to propose a government, they are aware that it would not be supported by the legislature.