Željazkov, Photo: Reuters
Bulgaria’s parliament today rejected a proposal for the composition of a new government, proposed by the center-right party GERB, which is likely to bring the country closer to new elections, the seventh in the last three years.
The GERB party, which finished first in the June elections, has 68 deputies in the National Assembly with a total of 240 seats, and therefore had to try to create a coalition for the composition of the new cabinet.
It chose Rosen Željazkov, the current speaker of the parliament, to lead the new government instead of its leader Boyko Borisov, who…