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GERB Table Draft Amendments to Election Code, Ombdusman Approaches Constitutional Court about Cap on Voting Sections Abr...
October 17 (BTA) - GERB propose that the limit of 35 voting sections per country be scrapped only in respect of EU Member States, National Assembly Legal Affairs Committee Chairman Danail Kirilov MP of GERB said here on Monday after his parliamentary group submitted draft amendme...
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National Audit Office Detects Lv 1 Mln in Tax Liabilities over 10 Years
, October 17 (BTA) - Over the last ten years, the Bulgarian National Audit Office (BNAO) has checked over 77,200 declarations disclosing financial interests of senior public officials. As a result of the alerts submitted by the BNAO to the National Revenue Agency and the State Ag...
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Bulgaria for Citizens Movement to Leave Governance If Presidential Pair of Reformist Bloc for November 6 Voting Performs...
October 17 (BTA) - The Bulgaria for the Citizens Movement, part of the rightist Reformist Bloc (RB) itself a partner in the ruling coalition, will leave the governance if RB's presidential pair performs considerably worse than the results attained by the RB in the last two electi...
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Two NEK CEOs Charged in Connection with Belene N-Plant Project
October 17 (BTA) - The Sofia City Prosecution Office has charged two executive directors of the National Electric Company (NEK), Lyubomir Velkov and Mardik Papazian, with concluding an unprofitable transaction resulting in a detriment exceeding 77 million euro, the prosecution se...
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President Threatens to Alert Constitutional Court about Contradictory Election Rules
October 16 (BTA) - President Rosen Plevneliev said in a bTV interview on Sunday that unless the National Assembly makes a responsible decision about the "none of the above" option on the ballot papers for the upcoming presidential elections, he will petition the Constitutional Co...
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301 Voting Sections in 72 Foreign Countries to Be Set Up for Bulgarian Presidential Elections
October 16 (BTA) - The Central Election Commission said it has definitively designated the overseas localities where voting sections will be set up for the November 6 Bulgarian presidential elections and a concurrent referendum, and has set the number of voting sections in each ...
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Regional Development Minister Pavlova, Romanian Counterpart Dancu Discuss Cross-border Cooperation
October 15 (BTA) - Regional Development and Public Works Minister Liliyana Pavlova held a working meeting with Romania's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Public Administration, Vasile Dancu, Pavlova's Ministry reported on Saturday.
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RB's Zelenogorski: "We Will not Push Bulgaria into Early Elections Spiral"
October 15 (BTA) - "We will not push Bulgaria into the early elections spiral and will not readily hand the power over to the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms," said the Reformist Bloc's (RB) Spokesperson Nayden Zelenogorski following a meeting w...
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Moody's: Bulgaria's Strong Fiscal Position, Resilient Economy underpin Baa2 Rating, Stable Outlook
October 15 (BTA) - Bulgaria's strong fiscal position, resilient economy and broad reform agenda support the country's Baa2 rating and stable outlook, Moody's Investors Service said in an annual report published Friday on its website.
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EC President Juncker Informs PM Borissov about Funds Allocated for Refugees in Turkey
October 15 (BTA) - Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has received a letter on Friday from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, informing him about the results of the Commission's work in providing humanitarian aid for refugees in Turkey, Cabinet's press service reported...
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Gallup Poll Shows 19.2% Voter Support for Tsacheva, 15.1% for Radev
October 14 (BTA) - If the presidential elections were held now, GERB's candidate Tsetska Tsacheva would get 19.2 per cent support from all eligible voters, compared to 15.1 per cent for the Socialists candidate Roumen Radev, shows a nationally-representative poll conducted by Gal...
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Reformist Bloc Sees Discrepancy between Election Code Provisions, Constitution
October 14 (BTA) - The Reformist Bloc (RB) on Thursday tabled changes to the Election Code which will see the option of "none of the above" marked on the ballot paper counted in the total number of votes for presidential candidates. Under Central Elections Commission (CEC) rules,...
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Interior Minister Buchvarova: Dublin System Reform Should Create Fair Asylum Mechanism
October 14 (BTA) - Bulgarian Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova said in Luxembourg that her country would support a reform of the Dublin system of allocation of responsibility for asylum seekers in order to work out a fair mechanism that would not strain the asylum systems of ...
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Extraordinary Parliamentary Sitting Fails Due to Absence of Quorum
October 14 (BTA) - An extraordinary parliamentary sitting on Friday failed to take place following three unsuccessful quorum calls. On the third call 95 MPs of the required minimum of 121 registered. Acting Parliament Speaker Dimiter Glavchev scheduled the next parliamentary s...
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Miners at Babino Mine End Protest
October 14 (BTA) - The miners at the Babino Mine ended their protest on Thursday night but remain ready to resume it, the steering committee which organized the strike said on Friday.
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Interior Ministry to Recruit Retired Servicemen, Policemen to Reinforce Border Security
October 13 (BTA) - On the order of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, the Interior Ministry will employ full time 1,000 retired servicemen and police officers in order to reinforce border controls, the government information service said on Thursday. This is envisaged in changes to ...
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Bulgaria Is Ready with Tender Requirements for New Type of Fighter for Its Air Force
October 13 (BTA) - The tender requirements for a new type of a multipurpose fighter for the Bulgarian Air Force are now ready and need to be approved by the Defence Council before being sent to prospective contractors, Defence Minister Nickolay Nenchev told the MPs in the parliam...
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Record-High Number of Applications for Overseas Voting for Nov. 6 Bulgarian Presidential Elections
October 13 (BTA) - The number of applications for overseas voting in the upcoming Bulgarian presidential elections is higher than for any previous presidential elections, said Tsvetozar Tomov of the Central Election Commission (CEC).
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Top Judge Calls on Supreme Judicial Council Spokesperson Ouzounov to Resign
October 13 (BTA) - Supreme Court of Cassation President Lozan Panov on Thursday called on Supreme Judicial Council Spokesperson (SJC) Dimiter Ouzounov to resign, accusing him of making single-handed decisions. Panov warned that if Ouzounov refused, Panov would then submit a mo...
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Companies Pay Out More Than Two Million Euro as Ransom after Cyber-attacks
October 13 (BTA) - Bulgarian companies paid out more than two million euros in ransom money after cyber-attacks for one year, Valentin Genev, an expert in digital and fiscal security, said Thursday, speaking at a forum on how to protect the business against cyber criminals. The d...
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