The head of Bulgaria's Socialists warned that a "minefield" lay ahead as his party was tasked Thursday with forming a coalition government after coming second in this month's elections. "We are clear about the extremely heavy responsibility we undertake. We are also clear that the Bulgarian people have lost patience," BSP leader Sergey Stanishev said.
"Life has worsened so much and disappointments have run so deep that the cabinet, if approved, will not have a single day when it would not have to prove that it is working in the public interest to solve the problems." He said that his proposed technocrat government, to be led by non-partisan former finance minister Plamen Oresharski, "will walk a minefield with many pitfalls and many skeletons in the closet", and ministers would have to make "hard decisions".
The May 12 elections came three months after nation-wide protests by people angry at rising poverty and corruption prompted the conservative government of Boyko Borisov to resign. Bulgaria's winter of discontent also saw seven people set themselves on fire, six of whom died.
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