site.btaGERB Leader Borissov Expresses Doubt over Government's Formation due to Other Party Leaders' Statements

After casting his vote at the 78th Hristo Smirnenski Secondary School in Bankya on Sunday, GERB leader Boyko Borissov commented that his party's Mariya Gabriel will not take the government-forming mandate as a prime minister designate. "I could take it," he said in reply to a question, but added that the elections are not over yet and the results are yet to come out. He expressed doubt over the formation of a government given the statements by other parties' leaders on Sunday morning.

"We cannot [form a cabinet] only with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria cannot [form a cabinet] with GERB and the MRF, Vazrazhdane say, 't's us or no one else' - the math is missing in this case," Borissov argued. "Perhaps we should focus more on the European elections, which are extremely important," he added.

In his words, having new snap general elections would produce the same result as the current ones and would be a huge stupidity. "It would be right for them to return us the favour: a government of ours, we will give them one ministerial seat," Borissov said.

He said he voted for an end to "this cash in the last four years, to start fulfilling our promises to continue [building] the Struma, Hemus, Tarnovo-Ruse [motorways] and something stable, so that Bulgaria can return to the place it was and so that it voice can be heard once again."