After winning national elections on Sunday, the ruling party leader said that the central party's focus is on tackling the corruption issue.
With 25.7% of votes, the socialist country PP, established just two months ago, won the last of the Balkan countries' national elections this year.
The party requires the support of two other anti-graft factions and the Socialist party, but political analysts see this victory as a chance to break the stalemate that followed two inconclusive votes in April and July.
The Anger against high-level corruption in April led to the revolt of the centre-right GERB after more than a decade of power, but political wrangling among its opponents prevented them from making government even after a further vote in July.
"We plan on holding talks with the other parties already today. We have many things in common", PP leader Kiril Petkov told NOVA television.
Petkov, a 41-year-old business executive and former interim economic minister, was confident that this time GERB opponents would throw aside egos if country, facing high energy costs and climbing COVID-19 cases, could not afford any further elections.
He said he talked about the socialist leader, the anti-graft faction Democratic Bulgaria, the anti-elite There Is Such a People and found out a mutual agreement.
Ultimately, we want to do the work before the formal vote for a coalition takes place. "We want to give this work a lot of work before the formal voting for a coalition begins," he said. He added that part of the discussions will be streamed online to ensure transparency.
Petkov was viewed as the next prime minister and the co-leader of the PP, Assen Vassilev, and as a finance minister, but said in the coalition talks a final decision is being taken.
Transparency International named Bulgaria's most corrupt state by the new coalition.
"There shouldn't be a thief in Bulgaria whose use is under public debts, who can feel that he can't be punished," Petkov said.
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