Bulgaria to hold new snap election after coalition talks failed

This will be the seventh early vote in just over three years. Of the six elections since 2021, only two have produced an elected government.

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00:00Bulgaria will hold its 7th parliamentary elections in just over 3 years after the main parties

00:06failed to form a government.

00:09There is such a people ITN party returned to 3rd government forming mandates to President

00:14Rumin Radev, unfulfilled on Monday.

00:16Chair of the ITN parliamentary group said the parties had been unable to find common

00:21ground.

00:22President Radev is expected to appoint a caretaker prime minister and schedule new elections

00:42within two months.

00:43The spiral of elections without results continues to swirl, and this not only causes discontent,

00:55but also turns off a series of destructive processes, a series of institutions, alienation

01:01of citizens from the democratic mechanism of the elections.

01:05Political stalemate in Bulgaria has hampered its efforts to participate in Europe's Schengen

01:11area.