Hristo Biserov, Deputy Chair of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party has declared that they will not back a coalition government with the center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party (GERB).

"GERB had better not waste time seeking our support," Biserov stated in a Monday interview for the morning broadcast of TV7, condemning the authoritarian rule of the former GERB government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

Biserov made clear that DPS was in favor of an expert government, adding that it was best to give the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) the mandate to form a cabinet.

Asked whether GERB would agree to the scenario, he suggested that the party had no other choice.

"We have hope that the state is alive, despite the fact that the caretaker government failed," he stated.

„The caretaker government must not remain in office too long. It failed in its most important task of conducting fair elections, which is why a non-coalition government must be established as soon as possible," Biserov noted.

He drew attention to the fact that the May 12 general elections had been marred by unprecedented fraud, referring to the extra unaccounted-for 350 000 ballot papers discovered at a printing press on the day before the elections.

The Deputy Chair of DPS further argued that former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and former Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov had to give up their immunity from prosecution over the large-scale wiretapping scandal.

Biserov demanded a restructuring at the Interior Ministry in order to put an end to abuses of power.

According to preliminary results of the May 12 general elections, four parties enter Bulgaria's 42nd Parliament, including center-right party GERB, socialist party BSP, ethnic Turkish party DPS, and nationalist party Ataka.

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