SEE Security Monitor
SEE Security Monitor
Bulgaria's outgoing PM Simeon Saxe-Coburg, nationalist leader Volen Siderov and right-winger Ivan Kostov have already become coalition partners.
Socialist Deputy Chair, Rumen Ovcharov, made the statement Friday in Parliament. Bulgaria will have a new government and the Socialist party and its coalition partners, the Turks' Movement for Rights and Freedoms will participate in it, he added.
The country will have a government, which will do its best for its European Union accession, Ovcharov said. The Socialist blamed rightists that they have closed Bulgaria's doors to the EU.
There will be no right-centrist government, let alone a government in which nationalist Attack (Ataka) will participate, Ovcharov said.
The Socialist Party and its coalition partner, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, officially admitted Thursday failure to form a minority government. Thus, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov is expected to hand the cabinet formation mandate to Saxe-Coburg's Simeon II National Movement.
The outgoing incumbents might turn to Bulgaria's right-wingers but the centrist faction and the three rightist parties in parliament do not have the necessary seats to form a joint draft cabinet. They could also try to attract nationalist Attack into joining their ranks though experts say the chance is minimal.
Source: novinite.com