Bulgaria’s printed media accentuates on Monday on the messages of the main political formations sent to their supporters during the weekend. Dnevnik daily informs about the 49^th Congress of the Bulgarian Socialist Party held on February 4 and 5. BSP leader Kornelia Ninova claims that the government measures of that party, which will be part of the election programme, will cost nearly EUR 1 billion to the state budget and that they can be fulfilled with the current financial resource of the country, even if the national economy fails to register a higher growth. The newspaper also accentuates on Ninova’s assurance that if the socialist party becomes in charge of the government after the early Parliamentary elections, Bulgaria will be the first EU country that will categorically demand lifting of the EU sanctions against Russia.

Sega daily comments that the Bulgarian Socialist Party would spend a lot after the elections, if it places first at the forthcoming elections and forms a cabinet. According to the platform adopted at the latest congress, that party is ready to make a lot of investments in industry and in suspended energy projects such as the Belene NPP project. Trud daily publishes an article of Professor Iskra Baeva who claims that the most-impressive moment of that party’s last congress was the fact that BSP did not feel guilty about the past. Perhaps this was so, because a group of young politicians, who neither remember the communist period, nor the years of transition from communism to democracy, became part of the leadership of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. 

Dnevnik daily notes that GERB leader Boyko Borissov confronted with the Bulgarian Socialist Party during the presentation of the party’s election platform. Boyko Borissov announced that if his government did not have to pay the bills of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, he would have spent an extra EUR 750 million on pensions. 24 Chassa informs that the leader of New Republic Radan Kanev said upon the official presentation of the new political platform that he had asked forgiveness from his followers for entering in coalition with GERB twice, which made supporters of rightist parties vote for the Bulgarian Socialist Party. In Radan Kanev’s words, the socialist party will not govern the country anymore when the rightist political forces make Boyko Borissov leave the political stage for good. The printed media also inform about statements of the United Patriots nationalist coalition between NFSB, Ataka and VMRO. VMRO leader Krasimir Karakachanov contends that the United Patriots will place ahead of GERB and BSP at the forthcoming elections, because in his words, those two parties have been copying their election program, Dnevnik daily informs.

The Bulgarian newspapers also accentuate on Monday on the tragic accident on Hemus motorway where a woman was killed after a lamp collapsed on her car in Echemishka tunnel. Standard quotes a statement of Bulgaria’s caretaker Premier Ognyan Gerdzhikov that all competent institutions have been working on that case. Sega daily comments that a Bulgarian woman is a victim to the carelessness of the state and that despite that tragic accident, the Road Infrastructure Agency would only remove the dangerous equipment and facilities and the actual repair works can start as early as this spring.