April 9 (BTA) - The Central Election Commission (CEC)
announced Friday the final results from the Aptril 4 general
elections in Bulgaria and the distribution of seats among the
political formations. The leading political force remains GERB
with 25.8 per cent of the votes, followed by There Is Such a
State (TISP) with 17.4 per cent, the Bulgarian Socialist Party
(BSP) with 14.79 per cent, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms
with 10.36 per cent, Democratic Bulgaria with 9.31 per cent and
Rise Up! Thugs Out! with 4.65 per cent.

As a result of these votes, GERB gets 75 seats, TISP 51, BSP 43,
 MRF 30, Democratic Bulgaria 27 and Rise Up! 14.

In its decision, CEC removed from the list of elected MPs eight
who have declared a wish not to enter Parliament. Among them are
 six candidates from MRF and two from GERB, including the
present Prime Minister, Boyko Borissov.

Boyko Borissov has made it clear that he does not expect to have
 his proposal for a government approved by and in remarks on
April 7 urged the leader of There is Such a People, Slavi
Trifonov, to "step forward and assume responsibility" and start
building "the complement of the government and the majority in
Parliament: a National Assembly Chairperson, parliamentary
committee chairs, ministers, deputy ministers, and regional
governors, because that is a very difficult task and it takes
time". Trifonov reacted in a Facebook post saying that there is
a constitutional procedure to follow. 

In that procedure, the President of the Republic first invites a
 prime minister designated by the largest parliamentary group -
GERB-UDF - to propose a list of cabinet members. If the prime
minister designate fails to form a cabinet within one week or if
 Parliament defeats the motion to elect a Council of Ministers,
the mandate goes to a prime minister candidate nominated by
There Is Such a People as the second biggest group. If this step
 does not produce a government, the President offers the mandate
 to a third parliamentary group of his choice and should it fail
 to form a government, a caretaker government is formed by the
President to prepare snap elections.

When the results of last week's elections started to take shape,
 it was immediately clear that it will be very difficult to have
 a government with this distribution of powers in the new
legislature. RI/LN/
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