Politics of Bulgaria

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) is registered with the CEC for both parliamentary and presidential elections. However, party leader Mustafa Karadayi did not specify who their presidential candidate would be.

The Ministry of Educaion and Science  will close schools where  the anti-epidemic measures are not observed,stated  Minister of Education Nikolay Denkov. The office in the Ministry of Education and Science presented a report on what has been done in the past term and its priorities for the new caretaker government's  term.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev will dissolve the 46th National Assembly and will appoint a caretaker cabinet on Thursday, 16 September, the President's Press Secretariat said on Monday.

The legislature will have to be dissolved after three parliamentary groups (There Is Such a People, GERB-UDF and BSP for Bulgaria) failed to fulfil their mandates to form a cabinet.

On Tuesday, Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev will meet with representatives of the parliamentary group of "BSP for Bulgaria" coalition, which received the third and last cabinet-forming mandate, the press center of this country's head of state announced.

Bulgaria will hold its third parliamentary election in just one year as parliament will be dismissed in mid-September and the president must schedule early elections in late October or early November.

At the same time, the country will also hold presidential elections, in which current President Rumen Radev is set to be the absolute favourite.

President Rumen Radev Friday presented the third government-forming mandate to the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), which is the third largest parliamentary group in the 46th National Assembly. It is the last chance for this Parliament to try to form a government after the biggest and second biggest groups, There Is Such a People (TISP) and GERB, were unable or unwilling to do that.

Commenting on the upcoming third cabinet-forming mandate, President Rumen Radev said that time is up for political declarations. "People want to see the Bulgarian Parliament take a clear responsibility. I expect a clear signal from the parties, they must come up with a sustainable formula," he said while visiting the town of Topolovgrad on Sunday.

Pursuant to the Constitution, the head of state will hand over a mandate to form a government to the candidate for Prime Minister of GERB-UDF on Friday, August 20, at 9.30 am at the Presidency, the press office of the Presidency announced on August 19.

The Bulgarian political world was shocked into action on August 10 when the party that won the country's July 11 elections, There is Such a Nation, withdrew its ministerial nominations, including a large number of young unknowns who were educated abroad, one day before a scheduled parliamentary approval vote.  

Bulgaria's anti-establishment There is Such a People party (ITN) had no rallies, no posters, no canvassing, no candidates and no real programme to speak of. Now the whole country may be about to experience the same of its next leader.