The United Democratic Forces submitted in Parliament a request for holding a non-confidence vote against the Cabinet. The draft resultion has been signed by fifty MPs of the United Democratic Forces. Parliamentary debates on the non-confidence vote are to be scheduled between three and seven days after its submission. The vote is to be scheduled 24 hours later. The rightist opposition justified the non-confidence vote with the Cabinet’s medicine policy, which in their opinion has led to chaos in the pharmacies, medicine distribution and local manufacturers. They also voiced objections to the imposition of higher licence and property taxes. The medicine policy is not the only reason for the non-confidence vote, it has rather been chosen as a starting point, UDF leader Ekaterina Mihaylova added. According to her the selected date is symbolic and is meant to act as a reminder to the Cabinet that it should work in people’s interests. On February 4, 1997 after the collapse of the two-year Cabinet of Zhan Videnov, the Bulgarian Socialist Party handed back the mandate to President Stoyanov. Early parliamentary elections were scheduled and won by the UDF. Today’s Sofia Mayor Stefan Sofianski headed the appointed interim government.