Today at 3:00 p.m., the head of state Rumen Radev will hand over a mandate to form a government to the candidate for prime minister, nominated by the second largest parliamentary group in the 49th National Assembly – that of PP-DB.
According to the Constitution, the candidate for prime minister will have a week to propose to the president the composition and structure of the cabinet or return the mandate unfulfilled.
GERB–SDS will not participate in attempts to form a government with the second and third terms. This was stated yesterday by the party in response to a letter sent by PP–DB about the implementation of the upcoming second exploratory mandate for forming a government within the framework of the 49th National Assembly.
"From the very beginning, the GERB negotiating team – The SDF entered the talks with good will for an agreement that takes into account the national interest first, the electoral weight of the individual parliamentary groups and with a desire for mutual respect for the voters of both parties. In none of these intentions of ours, there was no hearing and desire to seek common solutions from the other side," the party said in its response.
The first mandate to form a government with Prime Minister candidate Maria Gabriel ended yesterday unsuccessfully. The decision was voted with 226 "yes" votes, no objections and one "abstention". (from PP-DB).
Maria Gabriel was not present in the plenary hall during the voting and discussion of the decision.
On March 18, President Rumen Radev handed a mandate to form a government to the candidate for Prime Minister, nominated by the largest parliamentary group GERB-SDS - Maria Gabriel.
On March 19, Gabriel returned the completed mandate of President Rumen Radev with the composition of a draft cabinet, and in the afternoon the head of state signed a decree proposing to the 49th National Assembly to elect as prime minister the candidate proposed by the first in number parliamentary group. In the end, after several days of arguments between the representatives of the so-called "assembly", Gabriel resigned from the post of prime minister.