(ANSA-AFP) - SOFIA, SEP 11 - Bulgaria will hold snap general
elections on November 14 to try and resolve a political crisis
that has left it without a regular government for months,
President Rumen Radev said Saturday. Bulgarians had voted in
April and July but both polls resulted in fragmented
legislatures. No party has been able to form a government to
succeed the almost ten-year tenure of former conservative Prime
Minister Boyko Borisov. "The elections will be on November 14,"
Radev said in the northern town of Pleven, adding that it would
coincide with the first round of a presidential election. Radev,
who is also running for a second term, is due to sign an
official decree in the coming days to dissolve parliament and
appoint a caretaker administration to organise the vote. Recent
opinion polls suggest that Borisov's GERB party could retake the
lead in the new vote, ahead of the new anti-establishment ITN
party of showman Slavi Trifonov. Pollsters however forecast
another badly fragmented parliament. (ANSA-AFP).
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