site.btaSocialists Don't Show Up for Talks with GERB-UDF

BSP for Bulgaria did not show up for talks with GERB-UDF, the winner in the June 9 national elections. They were invited by GERB to a meeting at 11am to discuss the issues on the agenda of Bulgaria and possible support for a government.

Approached for comment, Irena Atanassova of the BSP leadership said that the party's Executive Bureau had decided not to go to the talks "because that would be a meeting for the formation of a government on the GERB mandate, and we have made a decision not to back a Cabinet with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) on GERB's mandate". 

A decision not to back a GERB-MRF government was reconfirmed by the BSP National Council June 15.