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Bulgaria’s parliament gave the go-ahead to Prime Minister Boyko Borissov to head his third government in eight years, though uncertainty remains as to whether his coalition with a loose alliance of nationalist parties will last to serve a full term.
Lawmakers voted 133-101, without abstentions, to back the Gerb party’s cabinet with the United Patriots, Parliament Speaker Dimitar Glavchev said on Thursday in the assembly in Sofia, the capital. The European Union’s poorest member is preparing to take over the bloc’s rotating six-month presidency in January, a key part of the window during which the U.K. will hold Brexit negotiations.
The nation of 7 million people is looking to end the political upheaval that’s brought a spate of elections and restrained investment as governments are wobbling across Europe’s former communist east, from the Czech Republic to Croatia and the Republic of Macedonia. The 57-year-old former body guard, whose previous administrations collapsed, must balance the Patriots’ desire to revive ties with Russia, and his party’s aspiration to deepen Bulgaria’s EU integration.