Bulgaria will hold a snap parliamentary election on April 19, President Ilijana Iotova announced on Wednesday, making it the eighth vote in almost five years.
She stated her intention to sign a decree to appoint a caretaker Cabinet, which would be sworn in by 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 to make an informed choice.”
Iotova’s remarks came roughly a month after her predecessor and then-president, Rumen Radev, said the country would be on its way to another early vote, following the collapse of the government.
Back in January, Radev met with the heads of various parliamentary groups, trying to task them with forming a government, but did not succeed.
Radev then stepped down on Jan. 19 to start his own election campaign with Iotova, who had served as vice president, taking office shortly after. She appointed Andrey Gyurov, a former deputy governor of Bulgaria’s National Bank, as caretaker prime minister.
Gyurov superseded the country’s last prime minister, Rosen Zhelyazkov, who resigned in December, following weeks of anti-corruption protests against his government. His Cabinet, which took office in January 2025, survived six no-confidence votes before collapsing.
Since 2021, no single Bulgarian prime minister has completed a full four-year term.
Bulgaria to hold snap election in April
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