Diehard Rightists Dump King's Party Coalition Talks

Politics | August 3, 2005, Wednesday // 00:00
Diehard Rightists Dump King's Party Coalition Talks The staunchly anti-communist Democrats for Strong Bulgaria turned their backs on coalition talks with Simeon II National Movement in the wake of their invitation to the Socialists to form a government. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia News Agency)

The staunchly anti-communist Democrats for Strong Bulgaria turned their backs on coalition talks with Simeon II National Movement in the wake of their invitation to the Socialists to form a government.

"Democrats for Strong Bulgaria will not support a government with the participation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party," says a statement of the party, headed by the former prime minister Ivan Kostov.

According to Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, Simeon Saxe-Coburg has choked on his promise not to ally with the Socialists by enabling them again to appoint the prime minister-designate.

SIINM has demanded that a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party be nominated for Bulgaria's next Prime Minister on the grounds that a stable cabinet cannot be formed without either party's participation.

The exploratory mandate for government formation was first handed to the election-winning Socialist Party, who held coalition talks with SIINM. But the centrists' last-minute withdrawal doomed the Socialists to a failure in their effort to push through a minority-government plan.

Bulgaria's government-forming consultations initiated by the King's Party were postponed for Thursday.

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