Final day of President's consultations on new government: TISP offer expert cabinet on third mandate

President Rumen Radev on June 26 continued with the consultations with the parties in the 50th Parliament as part of the process before handing over the first mandate to seek to form a government. In the meeting today. There Is Such a People (TISP) party proposed an expert cabinet with the third mandate.

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"Voter turnout in the June 9 elections was terribly low. I am opening a bracket on how many voters there actually are in Bulgaria, because there is actually a difference of about 2 million between the electoral roll and the census after the counting, On that line of reasoning, if the census is more correct, the turnout is just under 50%. It depends on how many Bulgarians can vote. However, there is also an outflow from the polls, loss of interest in politics. The reason for this is politicians. Bulgarian people are not to blame for it. In the previous Parliament, the Bulgarian people voted for certain political parties that said what they were going to do, and a month later they did exactly the opposite. The voters said to themselves - why should I vote when they are lying to me a month after the elections. That is, trust has to be restored by political parties and there is only one way to do that - to keep their word. Not as of now, we are talking about an expert cabinet in a political crisis as the only possible way out to restore the trust of the citizens in the people to whom they have delegated responsibilities in Parliament. With the first and second mandate, there is no broad political support. We may get 121 MPs, but that will not be broad political support. Therefore, the most sensible, practical and correct move of the Parliament, in our opinion, is with the third mandate, if you decide to give it to TISP, to proceed with the elaboration of a programme and accordingly an expert government to implement this programme. to start to get out of the economic, social, demographic and any crisis we have gone into," said Toshko Yordanov, chairman of the TISP parliamentary group.

Yordanov commented on the option of a presidential republic and said that "There is Such a People" is trying to make a referendum on the subject.

"However, we didn't collect enough signatures, but that doesn't change our opinion," Yordanov said, responding to the President that it was not about "passing the ball" to President Radev.

According to TISP, in a presidential republic in which the President is also the head of the executive branch, it has much more legitimacy because it garnered more than 50 percent of the electoral votes.

"At the moment, we are seeing a disarray of low voter turnout and the legitimisation of any party is almost nonexistent," he added.

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Under the Constitution, the first two mandates go to the two largest groups in Parliament, GERB-UDF and MRF. If they fail to form a government, the President hands over the third mandate to a parliamentary group at his discretion. If it fails too, a caretaker government is appointed and parliamentary elections are scheduled within two months.