Bulgaria's ruling party leader calls for July election


  • World
  • Tuesday, 10 Jun 2014

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria should hold a snap election as early as July, the head of the ruling Socialist party said on Tuesday, bringing the government's demise one step closer after its poor performance in European Parliament elections in May.

The Socialists have bowed to pressure both from their own coalition partner and the main opposition GERB party to hold an early poll, which would mark the second government collapse in two years in the European Union's poorest state.

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