site.btaUPDATED CC-DB Proposes to GERB-UDF that Second Cabinet-forming Mandate Be National, Common

With a decision of Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) and the bodies of the parties within the coalition, the formation confirms its readiness to fulfill the second government-forming mandate as a national one. That means a common mandate with the parliamentary group of GERB-UDF, CC-DB co-floor leader Atanas Atanasov said in Parliament on Tuesday.

"We are ready to do this while observing the commitments we made mutually nine months ago," he also said. This can happen if the following framework is observed: the two group's floor leaders should sign the agreement containing guarantees for reforms in the Judiciary, the regulators and security services, with clear implementation deadlines; the prime minister should be a mutually acceptable figure nominated by GERB-UDF; the current structure of the Council of Ministers has to be preserved.

Atanasov explained that this is not an invitation for additional negotiations but a proposal with an expression of readiness to fulfill the commitments they made publicly nine months ago. "Our duty to Bulgaria makes us be responsible and use the last chance the Constitution provides us with and make a last attempt to not throw the State into a crisis and a series of elections," he added. 

Atanasov underscored that if GERB-UDF refuse the proposal, CC-DB will consider its commitments observed and will return the second cabinet-forming mandate to the President unfulfilled. "We expect an official response with your decision by the date on which the second cabinet-mandate is to be handed by the President," Atanasov underscored, addressing GERB-UDF.

Earlier on Tuesday, Parliament adopted a resolution that the first mandate for the formation of a government with Mariya Gabriel of GERB as Prime Minister has not succeeded.