Source: US News & World Report
“Bulgaria’s Rosen Zhelyazkov, the candidate for prime minister of the largest parliamentary group, accepted the president’s invitation to form a government on Wednesday, following a snap election in October, the seventh in four years. Zhelyazkov, proposed as a PM-designate by the GERB-SDS group, presented President Rumen Radev with a ready-made cabinet. … Radev said he would order parliament on Wednesday to vote on the proposed government. The line-up gives the majority of ministerial posts to GERB-SDS, five to the BSP-United Left party and four to the populist There Is Such a People (ITN). The move follows months of difficult coalition talks in which the GERB leader and former prime minister Boyko Borissov was rejected as a candidate to lead the government.” (01/15/25)