Progressive Bulgaria Aims to Form Government by Mid-May, Sets Top Priorities

Rumen Radev’s “Progressive Bulgaria” expects to have a regular government in place by mid-May, with the focus immediately shifting to urgent institutional and financial issues, party representative Ivan Demerdzhiev said in a television interview. The statement comes just days after the early parliamentary elections, in which Progressive Bulgaria won a decisive victory and secured 131 seats in the new National Assembly. The result gives the party enough support to form a government on its own, without the need for coalition partners, although it remains short of the qualified majority needed for appointments to bodies such as the Supreme Judicial Council. ...