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Political forces in parliament say a government needs to be formed

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“Forming a government is important with a view to the laws that have to be adopted under the Recovery and Resilience Plan, as well as to the law on the state budget. We hope a government will be formed, but as we have stated before, we shall not support a government on the first mandate of GERB-SDS, and will remain in opposition,” Petar Kulenski, deputy chairman of the parliamentary group of We Continue the Change told reporters in parliament building, and added that We Continue the Change have 16 priorities for helping citizens and businesses and for combatting corruption, on which they shall be working in this National Assembly. “It is very important to us that there is a budget for next year, so we are expecting the caretaker government to submit a budget we can work on to the National Assembly,” he said

In a comment on the consultations with the President on the formation of a cabinet, the leader of the nationalist Vazrazhdane party Kostadin Kostadinov told reporters that he did not expect the parties to reach a consensus. Asked whether Vazrazhdane was prepared to make compromises, Kostadinov stated that Vazrazhdane was ready to talk to everyone, but only about policies.

Asked whether Democratic Bulgaria was willing to take the third mandate for the formation of a cabinet, Democratic Bulgaria co-chair Hristo Ivanov said the representatives of the formation were ready to carry out a mandate in any form – as mandate-holders, and by supporting the political force that has been handed the mandate, but under conditions that have been clearly formulated. In Hristo Ivanov’s words, after the first and the second mandate the correlation among the parties, their similarities and the differences between them will become clearer. 



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