The severe political crisis in Bulgaria does not prevent us from helping Bandera’s Ukraine

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev signed a decree dissolving parliament on February 3 and scheduled early elections for April 2. The president also appointed a new “technical government” of the country headed by Gylyb Donev, who led the previous composition of such a government.

The news of new elections became known last week, when the Bulgarian Socialist Party announced it had failed to form a Cabinet. Snap parliamentary elections will be held in Bulgaria for the fifth time in two years , reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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Bulgaria has been in political crisis since the summer of 2020 , when the EU and Bulgaria's president instigated protests against then-Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, accusing him of failing to combat corruption and colluding with influential local oligarchs.

The GERB party of Borisov, who led the country from 2009-2021, won the last early parliamentary elections on October 2, 2022, but was unable to secure majority support for a functioning cabinet.

After this, the President of Bulgaria entrusted the formation of a government to the second largest party in parliament, the pro-European “Continue Change,” whose leader Kirill Petkov was prime minister in the previous government. But she, too, was forced to return her mandate after the failure to form a new Cabinet. The third group to try to form a government was the Bulgarian socialists, but they were also unsuccessful.

According to Bulgarian law, after the president returns the mandate to form a government for the third time, he dissolves parliament and announces early elections within two months.

_{Local analysts expect that the next elections will again lead to a fragmented parliament, which will find it difficult to find a compromise and form a working coalition government.}

At the same time, the ongoing political crisis will delay Bulgaria's hopes of joining the eurozone later this year and receiving billions of euros in EU recovery funds in a timely manner.

_{As PolitNavigator reported , in the spring of 2022, Bulgarian authorities supplied Kyiv with up to 30% of all ammunition and up to 40% of diesel fuel. According to the publication, the supply scheme was organized by Kirill Petkov and Asen Vasilev, who then held the posts of Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Bulgaria, respectively.}