Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Bulgaria's leading party, GERB, has said it will not support either of its former coalition partners - the Reformist Bloc, or the Patriotic Front - if the President mandates them to form a new government within the current parliament.

The party of outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has made a U-turn in its attitude to a possible new cabinet led by the nationalist Patriotic Front (PF) coalition.

GERB will not back any new government within the current legislature, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who heads the conservative party's faction in Parliament, has explained.

Amendments to the Law on Electronic Communications will be introduced next week which will provide the opportunity for mobile operators to give out information about the location of persons who have gone missing in the mountains to rescue teams within two hours of the signal being submitted.

At the present moment, we will not support the Patriotic Front for the forming of a government, said to journalists in Parliament the chairman of the parliamentary group of GERB Tsvetan Tsvetanov.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has said he will work to prevent the political crisis that began on Wednesday from growing into a parliamentary one.

The meeting of the parliamentary group of GERB and President Rossen Plevneliev will take place on Thursday, announced in Parliament the Deputy Chairman of the party Tsvetan Tsvetanov.

There will be political consultations which the President will hold with all groups represented in Parliament in order to look for solutions useful for the state, said Tsvetanov.

Bulgaria is by no means a presidential republic, but a parliamentary one, and yet the presidential elections kick up a great deal of fuss.

With the vote coming on November 06, it is worth explaining why.

Bulgaria's main ruling party GERB is set to propose eleventh-hour amendments to the Electoral Code at an extraordinary Parliament session on Tuesday, party officials have said.

The announcement comes hours after both President Rosen Plevneliev and Ombudsman Maya Manolova confirmed their intention to refer sections of the code to the Constitutional Court.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is expected to announce his party's candidates for president and vice president on Sunday.

The event will follow months of silence on behalf of his party, conservative GERB, which has repeatedly declined to reveal the names.

The partners in Bulgaria's governing coalition plan to propose further amendments to election rules in an effort to address some of the deficiencies of recently adopted changes to the Electoral Code.