SOFIA, May 7 (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s election winner Rumen Radev received the mandate to form a new government on Thursday after his Progressive Bulgaria comfortably won a parliamentary election last month, the eighth in the past five years.
President Iliana Iotova on Thursday offered Radev, a eurosceptic former fighter pilot, the position of prime minister after his nomination by Progressive Bulgaria, which won 44.6% of the vote in the parliamentary election on April 19.
(Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Alex Richardson)
