The leader of GERB-SDS Boyko Borisov is going to the president to get the first mandate and to propose a government to put an end to the political crisis that has been holding Bulgaria captive for the third year, dariknews.bg reported. .
The formation of a government with a longer horizon of governance is of utmost importance both because of the complex geopolitical situation and because of the increased danger of the collapse of parliamentary democracy.
It is expected to become clear on Monday morning who the candidate for Prime Minister of GERB-SDS is. Deputy Lyuben Dilov-sin told the national radio that most likely the Speaker of the 49th National Assembly Rosen Zhelyazkov will take the folder with the mandate from the head of state.
With the handing over of the mandate, the Gordian knot of the country's political crisis will either begin to unravel or tighten even more, as all parliamentary groups have already announced their views on supporting or participating in possible talks to form a government with him.
After the first round of consultations with the parliamentary forces, it became clear that GERB will propose a minority government, but if it does not gather support, there will be new elections. Borisov himself emphasized that the only possible stable formula for governance is with the participation of the first three political forces.
DPS will support GERB and rely on President Rumen Radev to convince the other parliamentary forces to do the same.
„We continue the change – Democratic Bulgaria“ (PP-DB) will not support either a cabinet of GERB and DPS, nor one of "Vazrazhdane", if there is an attempt for a government with the third mandate.
The second political power in the country – DPS has already stated to President Radev that it will support the first mandate on the grounds that “people do not want new elections, but for the political process in the country to be normalized, and for a regular cabinet to solve people's problems”. It is normal to still support the mandate of the winner of the elections, and it is absurd for small parties to ask for support from the big ones, on the condition that the same forces would stand in a configuration with the first mandate, said Yordan Tsonev from the party.And the BSP categorically announced that it will not support a GERB-SDS mandate. Although internal political struggles within the centenary take precedence over other political affairs of the party, even if Kaloyan Metodiev, expelled from the BSP parliamentary group, supports a possible government with the first mandate, it is unlikely that he will attract any of his former colleagues to the same idea. A week after the elections, the BSP rejected the GERB-SDS invitation for negotiations to form a cabinet on the grounds that “BSP has a consistent policy and a decision of the National Council not to support a government with a GERB and DPS mandate, but the format that GERB proposes , contradicts the understanding of a supra-party and expert government that would take the country out of the political and institutional crisis.
The first mandate cannot hope for support from Slavi Trifonov's party – ITN, although a few days ago the chairman of its parliamentary group, Toshko Yordanov, stated that they would sit down for talks with Borisov. During the consultations with President Radev, ITN simply asked to be given the third mandate, promising to find enough support to form an expert government, even with a prime minister from another political power. "We don't want the prime minister to be from "There is such a people". GERB's approach was "we offer an expert cabinet, but the prime minister, foreign and military from us," which is not an expert cabinet approach. He may be close to a political party, but it doesn't have to be ours if everyone else agrees. There is no problem for any party if there is agreement from the others," said the chairman of the ITN parliamentary group Toshko Yordanov after the consultations with the president.
From the smallest parliamentary group “Majesty“ also announced that they will not support a government with the first mandate of GERB-SDS, but for no other reason than because they sought a meeting with Boyko Borisov, but their request was rejected.
"And we do not have clarity about what this government will do and what commitments it makes. An expert government would be a "hide", behind which there would be coalition relations that should not be visible to the general public. This is the kind of populism and demagoguery that plays out in the building of the National Assembly. The closest thing to us is a programmatic government with clear goals, tasks from the persons who have the greatest confidence to compose it,“, announced the leader of "Greatness".If the spiral with the delivery and return of the mandates turns and the files are returned unfulfilled, our country faces the seventh early parliamentary elections in a row within three years.