The Parliament of Bulgaria is dissolved.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Monday decreed the dissolution of the 47th National Assembly, which takes effect on August 2, and the holding of early parliamentary elections on October 2, the head of the State Press Secretariat said on Monday.
By the same decree, Radev appointed an interim cabinet headed by Galab Donev, a former caretaker minister of labor and social policy.
The members of the caretaker cabinet and its priorities will be officially presented at noon on Tuesday at the President’s administration.
The President’s decree was issued in accordance with the Constitution, since Continue the Change did not fulfill the mandate of forming the cabinet, the GERB-UDF rejected the mandate and the BSP for Bulgaria also resigned.
The current cabinet, headed by Kiril Petkov, resigned on 27 June after just over six months in office when it lost a vote of no confidence on 22 June.
The motion was approved by the opposition GERB-UDF and supported by all other parliamentary groups, including former power-sharing partner TISP, whose ministers quit the coalition government on June 8.
Judging by opinion polls, the next legislature will be as fragmented or even more fragmented than the current one with its seven parliamentary groups, and forming a governing coalition is likely to be a difficult endeavor.
