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Bulgaria is facing the possibility of its sixth general election in just three years after talks to form a new government cabinet failed again on Wednesday. The second-strongest parliamentary group of the pro-Western liberal-conservative PP-DB alliance on Wednesday returned the government mandate it had just received from head of state Rumen Radev. This was the second failed attempt to form a new cabinet after Deputy Prime Minister Maria Gabriel of centre-right coalition partner Gerb-SDS had broken off talks with the PP-DB on Sunday. There can be a total of three attempts at forming a new cabi…