site.btaPresident Radev to Hand Third Government-Forming Mandate to There Is Such a People

Head of State Rumen Radev will hand over the third mandate to form a government to the parliamentary group of There is such a People (TISP), the presidential press secretariat said on Thursday.

According to TISP floor leader Toshko Yordanov, immediate snap elections are the way forward. Asked if TISP would immediately return the mandate unfulfilled, Yordanov said, "Of course. We have been saying for a long time that there should have been elections, even nine months

The TISP mandate is the last opportunity to form a regular government within the current National Assembly after GERB-UDF and Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria failed to produce a regular cabinet following difficult and tense negotiations.