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President to consult three more parties to form new cabinet

President Rumen Radev.
Photo: BGNES

Consultations with the President are continuing for the handing over of an exploratory mandate for forming a government after the resignation of Kiril Petkov's cabinet. 

Rumen Radev is expected to receive today the representatives of three parliamentary groups - There is Such a People, Democratic Bulgaria and Vazrazhdane. 

Yesterday, consultations were held with GERB-UDF and MRF, while We Continue the Change and BSP did not go to the consultations explaining that they had to attend the coinciding meeting of the Parliamentary Budget Committee on the state budget update. 
The consultations of We Continue the Change will take place at the end of the week after Rumen Radev's participation in the NATO leadership meeting in Madrid, MP Andrei Gyurov said.



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