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Reformist Bloc to try to form new cabinet in Bulgaria

Xinhua, December 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Reformist Bloc, which has only 22 deputies in the 240-seat Bulgarian Parliament, accepted on Tuesday the last president's offer to form a new government within this National Assembly.

The two largest parliamentary groups, GERB and "BSP Left Bulgaria," which have a total of 122 deputies, already refused to form a cabinet on Dec. 2 and Dec. 7 respectively.

If the Reformist Bloc fails to form a government within seven days, the country's President Rosen Plevneliev shall appoint a caretaker government, and early parliamentary elections would be held in late March or early April 2017.

The Reformist Bloc was a part of Boyko Borissov's coalition government together with the GERB party, the Patriotic Front and ABV, which came to power in 2014.

However, the cabinet resigned in mid-November after the opposition-backed candidate Rumen Radev won the presidential election in the Balkan country. Endit