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Bulgaria and Serbia need to encourage mutual investment and economic partnership in areas with high added value such as information technologies.

"President Radev has demonstrated that he is not capable of building consensus and has scheduled the elections for April 4. Since the summer, he has proposed that elections should be in November or December. On December 7, he set the date for March 28. Then the consultations began. Everyone said they were ready to go to the polls on that date. Today Radev announced a new date - April 4.

President Rumen Radev announced the date of the parliamentary elections in spring during his extraordinary address to nation. The vote will take place on April 4, for which the Head of State has already signed a decree.

"The Central Electoral Commission is in a Zeitnot situation, the entire process of ensuring machine voting is progressing at risk - we have no contracts concluded, no clarity whatsoever," President Rumen Radev said as quoted by BGNES.

The consultations for the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for today by President Rumen Radev began.

Today the parliamentary parties are talking with him, GERB is the first party.

The Head of State Rumen Radev stressed that the purpose of the consultations initiated by him is to increase the credit of the voters to the election process.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov arrives at the EU summit in Brussels, October 2, 2020. EPA-EFE/Olivier Matthys / POOL

Borissov criticized Radev's decision, saying it was hard to know how the pandemic would unfold by late March and implying that elections should be delayed.

Only the legitimately elected parliament can elect a stable government to begin dismantling the vicious governance model, stated President Rumen Radev at the beginning of his consultations with the Public Council of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov rushed furiously into the hall where today's traditional briefing of the National Operative Headquarters was held and interrupted it. He turned up the heat bragging about his successful management of Bulgaria. The Prime Minister's main target was President Rumen Radev. Borissov voiced serious accusations against the head of state.

Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov stated that government authorities are preparing a protocol for holding the parliamentary elections in a pandemic.

This happened at a meeting with The President Rumen Radev within the framework of consultations for holding safe parliamentary elections for the health of the citizens.

President Rumen Radev has begun consultations on holding fair, transparent and safe parliamentary elections for the health of citizens.