Bulgarian Socialist Party

Vanya Nusheva from Transparency International has commented that Bulgaria cannot change election laws every time some party is dissatisfied with the results as the country would end up with an unsustainable election system.

The centre-right GERB and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) will negotiate on Tuesday afternoon on the formation and support for new government.

At a press conference on Monday DPS leader Lyutvi Mestan said his party will offer unconditional support for a minority GERB government, but refused to support a government formed in coalition with far nationalist parties.

Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) leader Lyutvi Mestan said Monday his party would throw its unconditional support behind a single-party minority cabinet.

The party's Chairman outlined two worst-case scenarios ahead of Bulgaria: "new elections or an unprincipled anti-European coalition" in which nationalist entities could take part.

The two biggest Bulgarian parties failed to shake hands at the consultations held in Parliament on Monday.

After the four-hour-long talks, Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) and the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) took no decision to jointly participate in a coalition government.

Bulgaria should have either a center-right alliance or a grand coalition, interim Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki believes.

Bulgaria's ABV party led by former President Georgi Parvanov has said it won't take part in a government coalition with centre-right GERB party.

The differences between ABV and GERB are so big that the answer is negative, Parvanov told BNR radio broadcaster on Friday.

There is no way to form a minority government under the current circumstances in Bulgaria, conservative GERB's leader Boyko Borisov admitted, days after announcing intentions to form such a cabinet.

Bulgaria needs a coalition cabinet based on a written agreement and not the minority government that GERB proposes, a Reformist Bloc member said on Friday.

A minority cabinet, what virtually was "the one of [former PM] Plamen Oresharski," will be "unsuccessful" in times of crisis, Former Union of Democratic Forces (SDS) Chairman Martin Dimitrov told the Bulgarian National Television.

Center-right GERB party declared it would try to set up a minority government following its victory in the general elections held Sunday.

Though official results are yet to be made public, current data shows GERB won the vote by over 32.5 percent.

The preliminary data of the Central Electoral Commission from 65.328% of the votes as of 5.15 a.m. Monday confirms that 8 parties will enter parliament after October 5 elections.