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Bulgaria will hold early parliamentary elections on April 19, President Iliana Iotova announced on Wednesday. These are the eighth elections Bulgaria has held in the last five years.
She declared her intention to sign a decree to appoint a caretaker cabinet, which will be sworn in before Parliament, before scheduling the April vote. Iotova insisted that Bulgarian institutions create the conditions so that Bulgarian citizens “know the ideas and proposals of political parties in order to make an informed choice.”
Iotova's comments came roughly a month after her predecessor and then-president, Rumen Radev, said the country would be on track for another snap vote, following the government's collapse.
In January, Radev met with the leaders of various parliamentary groups, trying to task them with forming a government, but was unsuccessful.
Radev then resigned on January 19 to launch his election campaign, while Iotova, who had served as deputy prime minister, took office shortly thereafter. She appointed Andrey Gyurov, a former deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, as interim prime minister.
Gyurov replaced the country's last prime minister, Rosen Zhelyazkov, who resigned in December after weeks of anti-corruption protests against his government. His cabinet, which took office in January 2025, survived six no-confidence votes before collapsing.
As of 2021, no Bulgarian prime minister has completed a full four-year term.
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