Pictured: a man standing next to VMRO flags. Photo by BGNES
Bulgarian marginal nationalist party VMRO has declared that it has not scheduled any government negotiations with the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
VMRO has thus refuted a press release issued by BSP, in which the left-wing party claimed it would be holding talks with experts from several formations ahead of the formation of a new government next week.
Besides VMRO, the nationalist Ataka (Attack), the center-right Bulgaria for Citizens party and the Vox Populi party of punk rocker Svetoslav Vitkov were mentioned in the press release, local media remind.
VMRO has said in a statement that its potential support for BSP would depend on several conditions, including keeping the existing 10% flat tax rate and dealing with the demographic crisis.
On May 23, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev handed the mandate to form a new government to BSP, the party which ranked second at the May general 12 elections, after the winner, center-right party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) refused to do so.
Plevneliev handed the mandate to Plamen Oresharski, a non-partisan former Finance Minister endorsed for PM by BSP leader and PES president Sergey Stanishev.