site.btaPresident Radev to Hand Second Government-Forming Mandate to Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria

President Rumen Radev will hand the second exploratory mandate to form a government to the second largest parliamentary group in the 49th National Assembly, Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), the Press Secretariat of the Head of State said.

The mandate will be handed over at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

That step 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 presents the third exploratory mandate to a parliamentary political force of his choice.