site.btaTISP Sees Two-in-One Elections as Good Option

Speaking on behalf of There Is Such a People’s (TISP) parliamentary group, TISP floor leader Toshko Yordanov told reporters Wednesday that it would be a good option to hold snap parliamentary elections and European elections at the same time. TISP are in favour of two-in-one elections because it will be better for the state, both organizationally and financially. According to Yordanov, two-in-one elections may result in a higher turnout, as well.

“We need to hold [snap parliamentary] elections immediately. I don't know why this topic is constantly being chewed over, that if the third [government-forming exploratory] mandate comes to us, something different from what we have announced might happen,“ Yordanov said.

If the second largest parliamentary group, Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria, fails to form a government with the second mandate, and if President Rumen Radev hands out the third to TISP, TISP will immediately return it unfulfilled, Yordanov explained.

President Rumen Radev will hand the second exploratory mandate to CC-DB at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. This follows from a resolution by Parliament on Tuesday that the first mandate, offered to GERB-UDF Prime Minister-designate Mariya Gabriel has been unsuccessful. In a final proposal, CC-DB offered "a common national mandate" in which GERB would name a Prime Minister that would be acceptable for CC-DB as well and form a government with the same ministers as in the Nikolay Denkov Cabinet. GERB rejected the proposal as inadequate.

According to the Constitution, CC-DB have a 7-day deadline to propose the composition of the Council of Ministers. If they fail to do so, the President will present the third exploratory mandate to a parliamentary political force of his choice.