Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) received the second mandate to form a government and returned it unfulfilled to President Rumen Radev.
GERB and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) want snap parliamentary elections and this the result of their desire, Denkov said returning the empty folder to Radev.
Denkov said that he is returning the mandate unfulfilled because in the current National Assembly there is no longer support neither for the governance programme that CC-DB adopted together with GERB-UDF ten months ago, nor for the reforms that were the basis for the formation of the outgoing government.
According to Denkov, there were no doubts that the negotiation process was conducted "pro forma" with the clear awareness that the country will be sent to elections. Denkov reasoned his statement with the example of the tabled composition of the Council of Ministers - "the agreement signed unilaterally on a text that was not agreed, four times the other negotiating team got up and left the hall (during the negotiations) without it being clear what was happening next".
Denkov said that the Bulgarian people would again, unfortunately, "have to decide where to go from here". One option is to go back to where racketeering was the norm and everyone had to put up with it and submit to it, the other is to continue with Bulgaria's European path of development, where incomes increase and businesses and people can rely on the protection and support of the state when they are in a difficult situation, Denkov said.
Before that, CC-DB Co-leader Kiril Petkov handed over a composition of the Council of Ministers to Radev with Nikolay Denkov as Prime Minister-designate. Petkov said he handed over the folder formally, according to the Constitution, with the clear understanding that it would be returned.
"To my great regret, the first mandate was failed because the colleagues from GERB-UDF did not keep their agreement," Petkov said.
He added that CC-DB proposed Denkov as their prime minister-designate and gave a second opportunity to GERB-UDF to correct their mistake and not lead the country into another snap elections
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