Bulgaria to hold another snap parliamentary election on Oct 27

Bulgaria will hold a snap parliamentary election, its seventh in just three years, on October 27, President Rumen Radev has said, following the failure of its political parties to agree a coalition government.

Radev said a caretaker government led by Dimitar Glavchev would be sworn in Bulgaria's parliament on Tuesday to steer the Black Sea nation until the election.

"Tomorrow I will also issue a decree about holding early parliamentary elections on October 27," Radev said after Glavchev presented his interim government to the president.

Bulgaria, a member of the European Union and NATO, has been plagued by revolving-door governments since anti-graft protests in 2020 unseated a coalition led by the centre-right GERB party.

GERB, currently the largest party in parliament, the reformist We Continue the Change (PP) and the small ITN parliamentary group each...