FILE PHOTO: Bulgarian President Rumen Radev gives a mandate to form a new government to former Bulgarian foreign minister Daniel Mitov of centre-right GERB party in Sofia, Bulgaria, April 20, 2021. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will head to the polls in July after the Socialists on Saturday became the third political party to refuse to lead a government following last month's parliamentary election.
The Socialists, who lost almost half of their seats in the April 4 election, said it would be impossible to build a working majority in a fragmented parliament and would return the mandate immediately after the president hands it to them on May 5.
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