Bulgaria to hold early elections on April 2-president


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  • Wednesday, 25 Jan 2023

FILE PHOTO: Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev arrives for a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Tuesday said he would set April 2 as the date for the country's fifth parliamentary election within two years after inconclusive October polls failed to produce a working government.

Radev said he would dissolve parliament on February 3 and expressed hope lawmakers would use the time until then to approve legislation needed to ensure European Union aid funds were tapped efficiently.

Radev has said earlier he would re-appoint current interim prime minister Galab Donev to lead the country until a new government is formed after the snap polls.

(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)

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