(ANSA-AFP) - SOFIA, MAY 22 - Former EU commissioner for
innovation Mariya Gabriel, tasked with leading political
negotiations in Bulgaria, said on Monday that a compromise to
form "a stable government" had been reached after five elections
in two years. "We all made a lot of concessions," Gabriel told a
news conference in the country's capital Sofia. The two biggest
parties in the Bulgarian parliament -- Gabriel's conservative
GERB and the anti-graft We Continue the Change (PP) -- will
propose a government of experts for a period of 18 months. The
44-year-old ex-commissioner, who resigned from her post in
Brussels last week, will initially be deputy prime minister,
under the leadership of 60-year-old researcher Nikolay Denkov of
the PP. Denkov and Gabriel will rotate as prime ministers for a
period of nine months each. (ANSA-AFP).
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