The Bulgarian parties GERB, "Continuing Changes" and "Democratic Party" could not agree on the formation of a government coalition, as a result of which the country may hold six parliamentary elections in two years.
This was reported by Balkan Insight.
Boyko Borisov, the leader of the GERB party and former Prime Minister of Bulgaria, announced the failure of the negotiations.
"We are all moving into the abyss of the next elections," Borisov said, calling the position of the "Continuing Changes" and Democrats parties on refusing to cooperate with GERB "arrogant, irresponsible and impossible."
On Tuesday, "Continuing the changes" and the Democratic Party announced the project of a new government, which would be headed by the former Minister of Education Mykola Denkov. Borisov said that GERB can support the cabinet formed by his rivals only if it includes ministers from his party.
On Thursday, the head of the "Continuing Changes" party Kyrylo Petkov, who wants to get votes from GERB in the parliament if the mandate to form the government passes to his political force, but does not want their presence in the cabinet, said: "We have demonstrated a strategy of transparency by sharing our plans for legislative and administrative reforms...now is the time for them to take responsibility - a decision that will either move the country forward or we will return to the dark years of corruption and Eurasian rule."
Petkov will receive a mandate to form a government only if Borisov does not implement it, but more than a month has passed since the previous election and President Rumen Radev has not yet announced when he will officially hand over the mandate.
New elections will also mean Bulgaria's president, who has been known for his pro-Kremlin statements and whose influence has grown since the start of political unrest in Bulgaria, will appoint a new cabinet.