site.btaThere Is Such a People Start Talks on Expert Cabinet

On Tuesday, There Is Such a People (TISP) is starting talks with the rest of the parliamentary parties in a bid to enlist support for the formation of a cabinet on the third and last exploratory mandate that the parliamentary was handed by President Rumen Radev on Monday.

TISP will first confer with three groups of independent MPs.

At 11 a.m., they will hold a meeting with the MPs elected on the ticket of the Velichie Party who are loyal to ideologist Ivelin Mihaylov. The Velichie parliamentary group ceased to exist on July 5 after after six of its 13 members left it.

At 1:30 p.m., it will be the turn to the ex-Velichie MPs gravitating to the party's former chairman Nikolay Markov and Kaloyan Metodiev, who has been expelled from the BSP for Bulgaria Parliamentary Group.

The MPs elected as candidates of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), who have either been expelled or have left the parliamentary group as they oppose MRF co-leader Delyan Peevski and are loyal to MRF Honorary Chairman Ahmed Dogan, are due to hold talks with TISP at 4 p.m. 

TISP propose an expert cabinet with a programme to be implemented within a fixed timeframe and to remain in office for a limited period of time.

TISP were mandated to explore options to put together a government after the largest parliamentary group, GERB-UDF, picked Rosen Zhelyazkov as their prime minister-designate but his nomination was defeated in a parliamentary vote. On July 22, Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria, which found themselves to be the second largest group after a rift in the MRF diminished its size, declined the cabinet-forming mandate right away.

Under the Constitution, if a parliament-elected cabinet is not formed under the third mandate, the President has to set a date for early parliamentary elections within two months and appoint a caretaker cabinet.