SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party will seek talks with its political rivals to try to form a government after winning a national election over the weekend, its leader, the former long-serving premier Boyko Borissov, said on Tuesday.
Borissov said he would be willing not to become the prime minister if that was what was needed to agree a functioning coalition, and added that a new snap poll – following four already in the last two years – would not produce different results.
GERB won the Oct. 2 election with 25.3% of the votes but faces a challenge to forge a ruling coalition in a hung parliament.
(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
