Presidential candidate Lyutvi Mestan who is leader of DOST party (Democrats for Responsibility, Freedom and Tolerance) described the remarks that Ahmed Dogan, honorary leader of the DPS (Movement for Rights and Freedoms) may be nominated for president as a political bluff. Mestan, who was ousted as leader of DPS last year and founded a party of his own told journalists before the party’s first national council: “I can definitely say they are not in a capacity to assume the responsibility of nominating their honorary chairman for president,” Dnevnik newspaper quotes him as saying.

Military staff dispatched to safeguard the country’s border will receive an additional 500 Leva, Monitor newspaper writes. This is the sum envisaged in a draft on amendment of the regulations regarding the pay of servicemen under specific working conditions, uploaded for public discussion to the defence ministry’s website. The sum is currently 300 Leva per month, the newspaper adds.

Mayors are demanding that the municipalities with the biggest concentration of refugees receive part of the 160 million euro, promised by the EU for coping with the migration pressure, Standart newspaper writes. Ginka Chavdarova, Executive Director of the National Association of Municipalities says that people living in border areas must feel they are getting support, so as to be more tolerant of immigrants.

For the first time since the start of the reform less people are retiring on a pension, Sega newspaper writes. Under 83,000 people retired during the first nine months of the year or around 500 fewer compared to the same period of 2015, the newspaper writes, quoting National Statistical Institute data.  

Deputy Prime Minister Rumyana Bachvarova who is in charge of e-administration is about to create a whole new ministry on the sly, Trud newspaper writes, referring to the rules of regulation of the government E-Administration agency presented for public debate. 500 people are expected to be employed at the mega-institution. The agency has a resource of 300 million Leva until 2020.

The Union of Bulgarian Motorists is demanding one to three years of imprisonment and a fine of 6,000 Leva for rolling back mileage odometers, Monitor newspaper writes. According to the union, the vehicles on the country’s roads have had their mileage odometers tampered with twice - once by the car salesmen abroad and a second time when the cars are put up for sale in Bulgaria. In Germany – the country where most of the second-hand cars in Bulgaria come from – one in three vehicles have had their mileage tampered with, the newspaper writes, quoting Nastimir Ananiev, chairman of the parliamentary transport committee.