SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria s centre-right GERB party on Friday became the second political party to give up trying to form a new government since last month s inconclusive parliamentary poll, bringing the Balkan country closer to a third election this year. President Rumen Radev had asked GERB, the party of former long-serving premier Boyko Borissov, to try and lead the country after the anti-establishment There Is Such a People (ITN), which narrowly won the July 11 polls, abandoned efforts to form a minority government. But with just 63 seats in the 240-member parliament following the July election, just behind ITN s 65, GERB is well short of a majority and other parties have refused to cooperate with it due to public anger over entrenched corruption in the European Union s poorest member state. Before returning the mandate to Radev, GERB s Prime Minister-designate Daniel Mitov, already in campaign mode, presented to reporters a potential list of cabinet ministers so that people can m
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Bulgaria s GERB party fails to form a government, new polls loom Reuters 3 hrs ago
SOFIA, April 23 (Reuters) - Bulgaria s largest political party gave up its efforts to form a government on Friday, following a limited victory in this month s parliamentary election, boosting the spectre of a snap poll in the Balkan state.
While centre-right GERB won the most seats in the April 4 polls, anger against widespread corruption in the European Union s poorest member state has left it without an outright majority or any potential allies in the fragmented parliament.
Prime Minister-designate Daniel Mitov returned the mandate to President Rumen Radev after the two political factions whose support the party sought declined even to meet a party they accuse of fostering a climate of impunity among graft-prone officials and politically connected businessmen.