President Rumen Radev handed the second government-forming mandate to "We Continue the Change"

President Rumen Radev on January 3, 2023, handed the second mandate for forming a government to the second largest parliamentary group in the 48th National Assembly - that of "We Continue the Change" (WCC).

"We nominate academician Nikolai Denkov as a candidate for prime minister," said the chairman of the WCC parliamentary group Andrei Gyurov.

"You receive this exploratory mandate on the first working day of the new year, when we look with hope and expectation for more reason, dialogue and understanding, for unity around the important priorities for our country. I believe that you will use the time within the coming week to seek the necessary support from the other political forces so that within 7 days you will return with a fulfilled mandate and a draft line-up of the Council of Ministers," Rumen Radev said.

Acad. Nikolai Denkov added that "We Continue the Change" accepted this mandate with the clear understanding that the task is extremely difficult. "Many people even say it is impossible. However, we are convinced that we have to do everything that is necessary to form a government," Nikolai Denkov said.

In his words, many problems have accumulated and reforms have been delayed.

"We need a government that unites people and solves their problems. That is why we have changed the approach to prepare the implementation of this mandate. We used the festive days to define 4 national goals that we believe unite people and political formations," Nikolai Denkov added.

Nikolai Denkov explained that WCC has made a list of activities that, if implemented in 2023, will bring Bulgaria closer to meeting these national goals.

"Three political formations - Democratic Bulgaria, BSP for Bulgaria and Bulgaria Ascending - joined the discussion of these goals. I very much hope that the other political forces will join this process. The prepared declaration will be submitted as a draft decision of the National Assembly with the idea that the National Assembly should support the national priorities and the activities for their implementation," Denkov said.

According to him, if this draft decision receives support from the majority, "We Continue the Change" will return the mandate with a list of the members of the Council of Ministers to be voted on afterwards.

"If this draft decision does not receive approval from the majority of MPs, it means that there is no support in the National Assembly for the implementation of these national goals, so we will have to return the mandate unfulfilled. I very much hope that the coming days will be filled with reason and we can restore the people's faith that there is someone to work for them. I am providing you with a copy of this declaration so that you can familiarise yourselves with its contents," Denkov said.

Earlier in December, 2022, the MPs did not approve the candidacy for prime minister of GERB-UDF, prof. Nikolai Gabrovski, who received the first mandate to form a government.

"113 MPs voted for him, 125 against. Support for the candidacy of prof. Gabrovski for prime minister with the first mandate came from the parliamentary groups of GERB-UDF, MRF and "Bulgaria Ascending", but the votes of the MPs from these parties was not suifficient.

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