Bulgarian government should not resign this week - ruling party chief


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Jun 2014

SOFIA (Reuters) - The head of Bulgaria's ruling Socialist party said on Thursday that the coalition government should not rush to resign before political parties can agree on when a snap election should take place.

Sergei Stanishev on Tuesday urged the minority government of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski to step down after a no-confidence vote this week so that elections could take place in July - the second government collapse in two years in the European Union's poorest state.

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