President Rumen Radev will not award the third mandate to the party of former acting Prime Minister Stefan Yanev "Bulgarian Rise", but will choose between the parliamentary groups of the BSP and "Democratic Bulgaria", "Ofnews" learned from sources in the presidency.

According to the Constitution, the first and second mandates are awarded to the first and second largest formations in the parliament.

In the 48th National Assembly, the first in number were GERB, which failed to form a government.

Second are "We continue the change", but today they also returned the second mandate unfulfilled.

When handing over the third mandate, the president has the right to choose between the other political forces represented in the parliament - respectively DPS, "Vazrazhdane", BSP, "Democratic Bulgaria" and "Bulgarian Rise".

During the previous 45th, 46th and 47th National Assembly, the president chose the BSP, who nominated him as president, and handed the third exploratory mandate to the leader of the party, Cornelia Ninova, all three times.

PP returned the unfulfilled mandate of Radev, the president with a surprising request to them

"Ofnews" sources claim that this time the president is seriously considering the possibility of handing DB the third mandate.

The right, however, clashed ideologically with Radev on the issue of the war in Ukraine.

During his speech at the opening of the current parliament, Radev criticized DB, saying that "the most excited warmongers will never risk their lives, but they will easily risk the lives of Bulgarians".

Recently, Kornelia Ninova intensified her criticism of the president and even launched a personal attack against his daughter in the parliamentary committee on culture and media.

The president's arguments against giving DB the third mandate are the potential criticisms from the BSP that he has finally betrayed the left, as well as that his decision was made under pressure from the American embassy.

Despite speculation that the third term will most likely go to Stefan Yanev, whom Radev has twice appointed as caretaker prime minister, such an option is not being considered for now, our sources add.