Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has announced that he will call Parliament to convene by end May.
Plevneliev also confirmed that he would hand the mandate of forming a new government to the ruling center-right GERB, which narrowly won Sunday’s general election.
“From then on, everything is in the hands of the political parties,” he said.
Plevneliev urged the parties to hold coalition talks in the National Assembly or in their party offices, but “not in the Presidency.”
The President declared that Bulgaria needs “a working Parliament and a stable government.”
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.

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