The previous election in April saw the ruling GERB party win 75 seats, There Is Such A People (ITN) 51 seats, BSP for Bulgaria 43 seats, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms 30 seats, Democratic Bulgaria 27 seats and Stand Up! Mafia, Get Out! 14 seats. After Boyko Borisov of GERB and Slavi Trifonov of There Is Such A People (ITN) were unable to form governments, the BSP stated that they would refuse the mandate to form the government, as the three anti-corruption parties (ITN, Democratic Bulgaria and ISMV) were unwilling to work with them.[1]