site.btaPersonal Attacks Dominated over Political Theses during Debate on GERB-UDF's Proposed Cabinet, President Radev Says

Speaking to reporters in the corridors of Parliament on Wednesday, President Rumen Radev said that personal attacks dominated over political theses during the debate on GERB-UDF’s proposed cabinet. Earlier on Wednesday, the National Assembly refused to back Prime Minister-designate Rosen Zhelyazkov, thus practically ending the procedure for a government on the first cabinet-forming mandate.

The political crisis continues and its solution requires not only putting aside personal and partisan interests, but also demands adequacy, the head of State stressed. In his words, the MPs focused on the past, not on the present and the future. Radev noted that everyone should be strictly guided by the law. "That is why I will strictly follow the constitutional procedure," he further said, adding that journalists will be informed when the second exploratory mandate will be handed.