site.btaUPDATED As Government Formation Seems Likely Again, Opposition in Parliament Sees Horse-Trading

As the prospects of a new government being formed by the two largest groups in this Parliament increased on Monday after nearly dying on Sunday, the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and Vazrazhdane both saw the continued efforts to form a government by the ruling majority as horse trading. Earlier on Monday, the Prime Minister-designate of GERB-UDF, Mariya Gabriel, accepted an exploratory mandate she was handed by President Rumen Radev to form a government after the March 6 resignation of the cabinet.