There Is Such a People party to return mandate to form Bulgaria s next govt Author: National Assembly of Bulgaria / All rights reserved.
SOFIA (Bulgaria), April 26 (SeeNews) - The prime minister-designate of Bulgarian populist party There Is Such a People elections will return the mandate to form government, as the party does not have enough seats in parliament and partners in order to form a stable cabinet, party leader Slavi Trifonov said on Monday.
The party s nominee for prime minister, world chess champion Antoaneta Stefanova, will return the mandate as soon as she receives it from president Rumen Radev, Trifonov, a TV show host and a musician, said in a Facebook post.
FACTBOX - Bulgaria ahead of April 4 general election Author: National Assembly of Bulgaria / All rights reserved.
SOFIA (Bulgaria), April 1 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria will hold regular parliamentary elections on Sunday, after the coalition government of centre-right party GERB and its junior partners - nationalist parties VMRO and NFSB, served its full four-year term.
A total of 30 parties and coalitions are running for 240 seats in the unicameral National Assembly. To secure representation in parliament, a party or a coalition needs to win at least 4% of all valid votes.
The members of parliament are elected for a four-year term by proportional representation in 31 multi-seat constituencies. Voters have the right to note a preference for a certain candidate on the party list.