Balkans | Rival coalitions in Bulgaria have agreed to form a coalition government

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Balkans |  Rival coalitions in Bulgaria have agreed to form a coalition government

In the aftermath of the early general elections held on April 2 in Bulgaria, where the political crisis was still ongoing, two rival alliances agreed to form a coalition government.

According to the news of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA), the Citizens’ Alliance for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) – Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) and the Alliance for Continuous Change – Bulgarian Democracy (PP-DB) are done. The political crisis in the country in which voters went to the polls 5 times in the past two years, and they took steps to end it.

Accordingly, the coalition of rivals GERB-UDF and PP-DB agreed to form a coalition government.

In the coalition government in which the system of rotating premierships will be implemented, it has been agreed that Nikolai Denkov, candidate of the Continuing Change Party (PP), and Maria Gabriel, candidate of the European Union Party, former member of the European Union, will be included. Commission (European Union), will serve as prime ministers for a period of 9 months.

Denkov, one of the country’s former education ministers, will be the first person to sit in the prime minister’s seat after the formation of the government, while Gabriel will serve as deputy prime minister and foreign minister.

The duo will then switch roles.

In the 240-seat Bulgarian parliament, GERB-UDF has 69 while PP-DB has 64.

The Cabinet must be given a vote of confidence by no less than 121 MPs.

President Romain Radev gave the mandate to form the government to María Gabriel on 15 May. Gabriel, the candidate of the GERB party, led by Boyko Borissov, one of the former prime ministers who ruled the country for 12 years until 2021, also resigned as a member of the EU Commission.

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