Bulgaria’s President handed over the Second Mandate to WCC-DB and Demonstrated his Displeasure

President Rumen Radev handed over the second exploratory mandate for forming a government to the second largest parliamentary party - the coalition "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" (WCC-DB). Atanas Atanasov from DB told the president to instruct Acad. Nikolay Denkov to propose a cabinet composition to be submitted to the National Assembly for a vote.

"As president and commander-in-chief, I am directly involved in national security and called to defend Bulgarian statehood. Precisely because of this, it would be inappropriate on my part to hand you a mandate under the current situation and after the leaked recordings and to entrust the fate of Bulgaria in the hands of the leaders of your party after the leaked recordings and subsequent public confessions. Because of the torpedoing of Bulgarian sovereignty, the slander and the planned purge in the services and state administration, the request for interference in the elections through the Ministry of the Interior and the discrediting of leaders of European institutions and the name of Bulgaria. But by virtue of the Constitution, I am obliged to hand over this exploratory mandate," said President Rumen Radev.

"Its utilization is your constitutional right, but in the name of preserving the remnants of normality and trust in the political system to preserve your dignity and political perspective and preserve the image of Bulgaria in front of our European partners, I urge you to completely reconsider the expediency of utilizing this mandate that has already been discredited", the president added.

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