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Boiko Borissow (recording from 2019)
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"New elections are not a solution": Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boiko Borissow wants to prevent another vote after his election victory and the stalemate that has now arisen.
Borisov's party, the pro-European bourgeois GERB, received 26 percent of the vote on Sunday, but is now facing major problems forming a government.
Four parties have joined forces in a so-called anti-GERB bloc and do not want to enter into a coalition with Borisov.
To prevent new elections, Borisov (read a portrait here) made an unusual suggestion: He offered the second-placed party “There is such a people” (ITN) that if necessary, they could vote on the future government to ten GERB votes could count.
Until then, however, a lot can still happen on the way to a new government in Bulgaria.
According to the constitution, the GERB, which, like the CDU and CSU, belongs to the EPP at EU level, must first be commissioned to form a government as the strongest political force.
If the GERB fails, ITN (17.6 percent) comes into play.
In an initial reaction, ITN boss Slawi Trifonov did not explicitly accept Borisov's offer, but neither did he reject it.
Instead, he referred to the Constitution.
