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The Bulgarian parliament on Thursday elected conservative GERB party leader Boyko Borisov as Prime Minister.
A total of 133 members of parliament voted for the 57-year-old, while 100 parliamentarians of the opposition Socialists and liberal Turkish party DPS voted against Borisov.
The parliament in Sofia still has to approve Borisov’s coalition government with the nationalist bloc, United Patriots (OP).
Borisov’s pro-EU GERB won 95 of the 240 seats in snap parliamentary elections on March 26.
The OP, which is critical of the European Union, was third with 27 seats.
The Socialists, who had campaigned for closer ties with Russia, remain in the opposition with 80 seats.
A former bodyguard, fireman, policeman and Sofia mayor, Borisov served as prime minister from 2009 until resigning months before his term expired amid protests against his austerity policies.
His resignation was followed by instability in which the country held three sets of early parliamentary elections, in 2013, 2014 and a month ago.
Borisov governed the second time from November 2014 until quitting two years later as his coalition fell apart. (NAN)
