Ivaylo Valchev

Bulgaria's populist There Is Such a People (ITN) party has declined to try to form a new national government, paving the way for President Rumen Radev to call snap elections.

ITN's move came after the center-right GERB party and its former coalition partner We Continue the Change (PP) both said they could not form a new government.

Today at 11:00 a.m. at "Dondukov" 2, the head of state Rumen Radev presented the third mandate for the formation of a government to the "There Is Such a People" parliamentary group, which was supposed to nominate a candidate for prime minister.

Vasil Terziev and Vanya Grigorova are going to the runoff in Sofia next Sunday. This is indicated by the first exit poll data of "Gallup International" and "Alpha Research" at 7 p.m.

Here are the data for major cities

SOFIA Gallup

Vasil Terziev (PP-DB-SS) - 38.8%

Vanya Grigorova (BSP) - 19.1%

Anton Hekimyan (GERB-SDS) - 17.0%

"We from 'There Is Such a People' are in politics and in this parliament because we can bear responsibility and it is precisely this responsibility that obliges us to be constructive and to do everything possible to make this parliament work, to do everything possible and everything that depends on us for solving the crises facing all Bulgarian citizens." This was stated by the chairma

The largest parliamentary party "There is Such a People" (ITN) is starting negotiations to form a government, BGNES reports. The consultations will take place in the next three days, and an invitation for a meeting has been unofficially addressed to the leaders of the BSP, "Stand up BG! We are coming" and Democratic Bulgaria.

The leader of "There is such a people" Slavi Trifonov commented the political situation during a meeting with students in Plovdiv.

Bulgaria's next prime minister should be the "complete opposite" of Boyko Borissov he said to the audience.