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When voting: Bulgaria's Prime Minister Borisov
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Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boiko Borissow has renounced his future mandate as a member of parliament four days after the parliamentary elections.
Borissov said he did not need the protection from criminal prosecution that he would have as a parliamentarian in the future.
He had submitted a corresponding application to the Central Election Commission.
In Bulgaria, the prime minister does not have to be a member of parliament.
In the parliamentary elections, Borisov's pro-European bourgeois party GERB was the strongest party with 26 percent.
Borisov was elected as the list leader in two electoral districts - in the capital Sofia and in Plovdiv.
A total of six parties, some of which are at odds, are entering the newly elected parliament.
There are no clear majorities so far.
Borissov is unlikely to be able to forge a new government coalition.
Four parties do not want to form a coalition with the GERB.
The new parliamentarian »Stand up!
Mafiosi out «calls for a commission to investigate the governance under Borisov.
The previous opposition of the socialists (ex-KP) as well as protest parties accuse Borissov and his coalition government of corrupt administration.
Borisov's government, which has been in office since 2017, should, according to the constitution, only resign at the first session of the new parliament.
According to the constitution, the GERB, which, like the CDU and CSU, belongs to the EPP at EU level, will initially receive a mandate to form a government as the strongest political force.
Should the GERB fail, the second-strongest party - that is the protest party "There is such a people" (17.6 percent) of TV presenter and cabaret artist Slavi Trifonow to the train.
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