77% of Bulgarians want the new parliament and government to ensure affordable gas, electricity and fuel prices after the elections. 75% expect measures against impoverishment, the results of a survey by the Trend research center show.
43% of respondents want results of the fight against corruption, 20% want to improve health care and energy independence from Russia. 21% believe in right-wing politicians, 14% in left-wing ones, while for 48% the left-right division is irrelevant.
16 percent of voters consider it urgent to overcome the division in society. Fighting climate change is a top priority for 4%, minority rights and individual freedoms are important for 3%.
“Five people from the parliamentary group are going to be “torn apart” during the voting for a cabinet but will, most probably, not give their support,” Ivelin Mihaylov, one of the founders of Velichie party said for the BNR. GERB-SDS..
In an analysis of the pension system in Bulgaria, the International Monetary Fund urges the country to raise pensions by raising social security contributions and doing away with the maximum insurable earnings. According to the analysis, pensions in..
Bulgarian tour operators and travel agents are hoping the new parliament will reconsider the decision to revert to the higher VAT (20%) for the industry as of 1 July. They are insisting that tourist packages be subject to 9% VAT until the end of..
Bulgaria’s national team of mathematics put up an excellent performance at the Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad. Six Bulgarian students returned from..
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev handed the first cabinet-forming mandate to Rossen Zhelyazkov who is the prime minister-designate of the largest..
On Tuesday the weather will be sunny and hot over most of the country. Clouds will form over Western and Central Bulgaria in the afternoon and there..
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