BULGARIA'S GERB PARTY WINS MOST SEATS IN PARLIAMENT
Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party won 68 seats in the 240-seat parliament on Sunday and will need at least two coalition partners to form the cabinet, state election commission results on Thursday evening showed. The Movement for Rights and Freedom (MRF), mainly representing Bulgaria's large ethnic Turkish minority, won 47 seats while pro-Western bloc We Continue the Change (PP) had 39 seats.
The ultra-nationalist Revival party won 38 seats. GERB leader and former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said earlier on Thursday his party will form a negotiating team on Monday to reach out to all parties in the parliament. Sunday's vote, the sixth in three years, was triggered by the collapse in March of a coalition comprising GERB and the PP. NATO member Bulgaria needs a stable government to accelerate the flow of EU funds into its creaking infrastructure and nudge it toward adopting the euro and fully participating in Europe's open-border Schengen Area.
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