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Bulgaria should take more urgent measures to deport migrants who cannot obtain refugee status, President-elect Rumen Radev has said.

Radev, speaking to reporters after a conference of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, has underlined that authorities must act in line with the "agreements within the European Union" which should now be applied.

Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, expressed willingness to discuss with President-Elect Rumen Radev his position about relations with Russia and also the migrant crisis, announced BNR, on November, 26.

It is our conviction that this Parliament cannot form a new government, given the declaration of three of the political forces - GERB, BSP and DPS that they will not support and participate in the forming of a new government, stated the Deputy Chairman of ABV Rumen Petkov after consultations with President Plveneliev.

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has sent a letter to Bulgarian President-elect Rumen Radev praising his country's central role in decision-making within the European Union, public broadcaster BNR reports.

Juncker has congratulated Radev on his election on Sunday.

Ministers from the two parties in the outgoing government are poised to take seats in the Bulgarian Parliament after the cabinet's resignation is accepted.

Boyko Borisov, the outgoing Prime Minister, is also tipped to become an MP.

GERB and the Reformist Bloc had a total of 12 representatives in Bulgaria's executive.

Bulgarian lawmakers are due to convene on Tuesday with the cabinet's resignation being a major item on their agenda.

The government stepped down earlier this week, following the presidential election results which determined socialist opposition-backed Rumen Radev as Bulgaria's next President-elect.

The truth about Bulgaria and Moldova's presidential elections is "more complicated" and should not be reduced to pro-Russian candidates winning, the Economist says.

Bulgarian Vice President-Elect Iliana Iotova has said work with civic organizations will be among her priorities when she takes up office in January.

She has also voiced intentions to finish her work at the EU Parliament, where she is the deputy head of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, before assuming her duties.

Socialist-backed candidate Rumen Radev has claimed the "moral victory" in the Bulgarian presidential elections while casting a ballot in the runoff on Sunday.

"Bulgarians should go to the polls today [Sunday] and congratulate themselves on a legitimately elected President, and this depends on all of us," he has argued after voting, as shown by bTV station.

The biggest Bulgarian party's presidential candidate Tsetska Tsacheva must show full commitment to a 10-point reform agenda to receive support from Traycho Traykov, the Reformist Bloc (RB)'s dropped candidate, the latter has said.

Traykov was the joint candidate of junior coalition partner RB but did not make it to the runoff.