GERB Extends Negotiation Deadline with WCC-DB; Final Decision Tomorrow
The negotiations between GERB and "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" (WCC-DB) have been extended until tomorrow at 12:00 noon, as announced by GERB.
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Conservative GERB and right-wing Reformist Bloc are ready to strike a coalition agreement after tripartite talks with the Patriotic Front at the National Assembly, leaders say.
The PF for its part is likely to support the alliance despite remaining out of it, the Bulgarian National Radio quoted GERB's negotiator Rumyana Bachvarova as saying.
A left-wing party, Alternative for Bulgarian Revival (ABV) that splintered off socialists (BSP) this year, might also back the minority coalition, Bachvarova added.
During their two-hour talks in the Parliament building, GERB, RB and PF agreed that the deadline to form a new Bulgarian cabinet should be the end of next week.
Thursday's talks mark a new shift in the RB's position after the right-wing coalition declared a day earlier it would reject a proposal from GERB to take part in a minority coalition.
If they combine their quotas of lawmakers, GERB and the RB would have 107 out of 240 seats in Parliament and would fall short of a majority, therefore needing support from other parties.
Previously the RB voiced their concerns that the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), which earlier vowed to back a GERB-led minority government, could lead from behind if a stable majority is not formed.
The Reformist Bloc's Radan Kanev later said that "a two-party government and a majority in the National Assembly sealed with a written agreement and composed of at least three parties" are needed to ensure stability.
Tomislav Donchev, another negotiator from GERB, said the joint program that is currently in preparation should be "a compromise between election programs of GERB and the RB."
Donchev had imposed RB a deadline until Monday to have a final say on whether it wants to join the government
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