Radev will not give Yanev a third term – Politics

President Rumen Radev will not deliver a third term to former interim prime minister Stefan Yanev’s party “Bulgarian Rise”, but will choose between the parliamentary groups of the BSP and “Democratic Bulgaria”, “Ofnews” learns from sources in the presidency.

According to the Constitution, the first and second mandates are assigned to the first and second largest parliamentary formations. In the 48th National Assembly, the first in number was the GERB, which failed to form a government. The second are “Let’s continue the change”, but today they also returned the second term unfinished.

Upon the passage of the third term, the president has the right to choose from the other political forces represented in the parliament – DPS, “Vazrazhdane”, BSP, “Democratic Bulgaria” and “Bulgarian Rise”, respectively. During the previous 45th, 46th and 47th National Assembly, the president chose the BSP, which made him president, and handed the third exploratory term to the party leader, Cornelia Ninova, all three times.

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Sources of “Ofnews” say that this time the president is seriously considering the possibility of handing over a third mandate to DB. The right, on the other hand, clashed ideologically with Radev on the question of the war in Ukraine. During his speech at the opening of the current parliament, Radev criticized DB, stating that “the most excited warmongers will never risk their lives, but they will easily risk the lives of Bulgarians”.

Recently, Kornelia Ninova has intensified her criticism of the president and even launched a personal attack on her daughter in the parliamentary committee on culture and the media. The president’s reasons against giving DB a third term are the potential criticisms of the BSP finally betraying the left, as well as his decision was made under pressure from the US embassy.

Despite speculation that the third term will most likely go to Stefan Yanev, whom Radev has twice appointed as interim prime minister, that option has not been considered for now, our sources add.