FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the first plenary session of the new parliament in Sofia, Bulgaria, April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov/File Photo
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party on Friday became the second political party to give up trying to form a new government since last month's inconclusive parliamentary poll, bringing the Balkan country closer to a third election this year.
President Rumen Radev had asked GERB, the party of former long-serving premier Boyko Borissov, to try and lead the country after the anti-establishment There Is Such a People (ITN), which narrowly won the July 11 polls, abandoned efforts to form a minority government.
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