Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev has begun consultations with the political forces represented at the 47^th National Assembly on the formation of a future government. This country’s head of state has met with representatives of “We Continue the Change” first. The timе of autocracy in Bulgaria is over, said President Radev at the consultations.  

"Bulgaria urgently needs a functioning parliament and a regular government to solve the most pressing problems in this country. Bulgaria needs a cabinet that will serve its full term", Kiril Petkov from “We Continue the Change”, who is expected to become this country’s new Premier, said.

"Our parliamentary group will be opposition of the future left-liberal government", the Chairperson of the parliamentary group of the coalition GERB/SDS Desislava Atanasova said during the consultations with Bulgaria’s President Radev.

“This year has been marked by months of repressions and the supporters and the members of the coalition GERB/SDS were affected the most. However, our coalition is the second-biggest political force at the 47^th National Assembly”, Desislava Atanasova noted. "We are ready to provide support and give advices to the new government. However, every mistake made by this county’s new cabinet will be made public", Desislava Atanasova went on to say.

"We are witnessing a political crisis. It can be resolved via a dialogue between the parties and the institutions", the leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms Mustafa Karadayi said at the consultations with Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev. "Bulgaria needs a regular cabinet, taking into account the multiple crises we are now facing", Mustafa Karadayi said. "This country is late with its Recovery and Resilience Plan and the absorption of funds under EU operational programmes", the leader of MRF noted. 

“We have yet to see what they will propose in terms of programme and members of the new cabinet. It is not against the laws of physics if the Movement for Rights and Freedoms supported the government,” Mustafa Karadayi said at a briefing after the end of the consultations. 

After the consultations with President Rumen Radev on the formation of a government, the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Korneliya Ninova stated that the party will make every effort so there will be a regular cabinet. Ninova pointed out that the coalition agreement has been examined with expert and political groups and that the BSP has some criticism which will be discussed at a party level by the end of the day. The structure and the nominations for members of the Council of Ministers made by the BSP Executive Bureau will be discussed tomorrow, 7 December at a political council of the BSP and a national council of the BSP, Ninova stated. She stated further that the agreement will be signed by We Continue the Change with each of the parties – coalition partners, and declined to make any comment on the names of the cabinet ministers until there is a final decision.

Korneliya Ninova described as speculation the information in the media that there will be a ministry of state-owned enterprises. At the same time, she neither confirmed nor denied that she will be deputy prime minister in the possible future cabinet.