Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev. Photo by BGNES
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will meet Friday with representatives of all four parties that made it to Parliament after the May 12 general election.
Plevneliev announced that he will have talks with the center-right GERB party starting 10 am on Friday. His meeting with representatives of the Bulgarian Socialist Party will start an hour later.
The President will then talk with the liberal Movement for Rights and Freedoms and the nationalist Ataka, at 12 pm and 1 pm respectively.
“Bulgaria does not need new elections. This may destabilize the country,” Plevneliev said Wednesday, addressing widespread fears of a political stalemate in the new Parliament.
The quick formation of a new government is crucial, he stated.
Plevneliev called upon all four parties to hold transparent negotiations.
The formerly-ruling centrist Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, gathered 30.503% of the votes in Sunday’s general election, final results show.
Left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP is next with 26.614% , then follow the liberal ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS with 11.293% and the far-right, nationalist Ataka - 7.302%. All other parties running in Sunday's vote have remained below the 4% election hurdle.
The latest data confirms expectations by other analysts that the Socialists and the Movement together might have garnered more votes at Sunday elections in comparison with those cast for GERB and Ataka combined.