Observers expect a long period of political instability in Bulgaria after parliament voted on Wednesday to reject a proposed pro-Western government led by Prime Minister-designate Rosen Jeliazkov.
President Rumen Radev tasked Zhelyazkov, a former parliament speaker from the centre-right Citizens for European Development party, with forming a government after parliamentary elections on June 9, the sixth in three years.
But the minority government proposed by Zhelyazkov did not get the votes needed to take power in a vote in parliament on Wednesday.
Radev is now set to hand the mandate to form a government to the second-strongest party, the centrist Movement for Rights and Freedom.
The constitution stipulates that the mandate to form a government is granted only three times.
If all three attempts fail, new parliamentary elections must be held.
This will be the seventh election of its kind since April.
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