site.btaBulgarian Rise Chairman Accepts Socialists' Invitation to Leaders' Meeting on Friday

Continue the Change (CC) will not participate in the leadership meeting about the third mandate to name a prime minister designate on Friday. Instead, CC insists on a meeting with Democratic Bulgaria and BSP for Bulgaria, CC co-chair Kiril Petkov told reporters in parliament on Thursday.

At this stage, we do not see conditions for a leaders' meeting in which we can participate, Democratic Bulgaria co-chair Hristo Ivanov told journalists in parliament in connection with the upcoming leaders' meeting on Friday at 11 a.m.

Vazrazhdane has received an invitation from the Bulgarian Socialist Party to a leaders' meeting taking place on Friday at 11 a.m. in connection with the third exploratory government-forming mandate, Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov told journalists in parliament on Thursday. He reiterated that his party will not go to a joint meeting because they do not see the point of something like that. Vazrazhdane urges for bilateral talks, however, the party is convinced that no regular government will be formed with the third mandate.

Continue the Change issued a press release late on Wednesday, saying that its National Council has decided only to support the national priorities from their pogramme declaration that overlap with the goals of a possible new regular government, if

Meeting on Wednesday, the National Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) mandated the BSP for Bulgaria to hold negotiations on the formation of a cabinet.