“The best way we can get Sofia back is by losing it. We now need to save it from the saviours – I know these people, they are incapable of working, they are lazy,” said GERB leader Boyko Borissov in his first comment after the first round of the local election in Bulgaria on 29 October, when his party lost in Sofia after having governed the capital city for 18 years. The run-off will be between the candidates of We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria (PP/DB) Vasil Terziev and the candidate of Bulgarian Socialist Party for Bulgaria Vanya Grigorova.
In Boyko Borissov’s words, the election results in Sofia are expected, after “a three-year massive attack against GERB”. Regarding the upcoming run-off on Sunday, Boyko Borissov stated that it is now too late for PP/DB to look to GERB for support. He stated further that his party won in 7 regional cities in the first round, and in 95 municipalities and 17 regional cities will run in the second round of the election as a leading political force. Borissov described the low voter turnout as punishment for the entire political class.
"We are gradually starting to equip the trains with electronic devices for selling tickets," BDZ Passenger Transport manager Ventsislav Slavkov said, quoted by the Ministry of Transport. Such devices are already being used on a pilot basis on the..
The Bulgarian Judges Association has urged MPs to complete the ongoing fact-checking of undue influence on the judiciary and the prosecution , in order to initiate a recovery process in the judicial power. The largest judges' organisation is..
President Rumen Radev gave the start to consultations with the parliamentary parties and coalitions before handing over the mandate for forming a government to GERB-SDS, which won the elections . At the beginning of the meeting with..
During the night the weather will be predominantly clear over most of the country. On Sunday, 23 June, the weather will be predominantly sunny..
"Our goal is to have a completed motorway linking Sofia and Kulata in 2030," Stoyan Nikolov, a member of the Management Board of the..
The prosecutor’s office in Plovdiv is investigating the death of an English patient, who died at the University Hospital St. George a few days ago after..
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