Bulgaria's There Is Such A People (ITN) party on August 5 returned the mandate to form a government to President Rumen Radev -- the third party to do so since an inconclusive June 16 election. The move means Radev will have to schedule yet another parliamentary election within 60 days, most likely on October 6 or 13. The center-right GERB and centrist anticorruption We Continue the Change (PP-DB) political groupings earlier failed to form a government before the mandate was given to ITN on July 29. It will be the seventh general election in three years in the European Union's poorest country. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service, click here.
Bulgaria To Hold Seventh Snap Election In 3 Years
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev (right) receives the unfulfilled government mandate from ITN on August 5.