site.btaUPDATED President Will Give Parties More Time before Handing Exploratory Mandate

"I will give a little more time - a few more days, in the hope that the [government-forming] negotiators realise that their responsibility is not only to their own voters and parties, but to the whole Bulgarian people," President Rumen Radev told journalists here on Monday, commenting on the forthcoming handing over of the first exploratory mandate to form a cabinet. Radev attended the traditional Epiphany ritual in Sofia for blessing of the Bulgarian Armed Forces' colours.