Sofia: Bulgaria is set for its seventh parliamentary election in less than four years after an interim Cabinet was formed in Sofia following weeks of political wrangling.
New elections are due to be held on October 27, just four months after voters headed to the polls in June following the collapse of a centre-right coalition government.
An interim Cabinet - which under Bulgarian constitutional law is required to organize fair elections - was finally sworn in on Tuesday under caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev.
President Rumen Radev had earlier this month refused to approve an interim Cabinet under Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva amid allegations over Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov’s suitability for his role.
Glavchev then stepped in to continue his term as interim prime minister and organize the new elections, as Bulgaria seeks to avoid an escalation of its long political crisis. (DPA)