Bulgaria’s printed media focus on Thursday on GERB’s refusal to support possible cabinet headed by the Patriotic Front or the Reformist Bloc within the current National Assembly.
Following an extraordinary sitting of GERB’s parliamentary group on Wednesday, its leader Tsvetan Tsvetanov announced GERB’s decision that no political party was capable of forming a stable cabinet within the current 43rd National Assembly. Therefore, the country headed to early Parliamentary elections, Trud daily quotes Tsvetan Tsvetanov. GERB’s decision was made after the discussion of the 2017 state budget in plenary hall, where the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party announced unexpectedly that her party would support the proposal of the Patriotic Front for an increase of pensions as of next year.
Outgoing Premier Boyko Borissov did not comment Tsvetan Tsevtanov’s announcement that GERB would not support a new cabinet within the current National Assembly. Borissov paid a visit to Budapest, where he was bestowed with the Grand Gross of the Order of Merit by his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban. The press office of the Bulgarian cabinet announced that Outgoing Premier Borissov would not comment any domestic political topics on Wednesday, Dnevnik daily informs.
The United Patriots will not abandon their intention to form an expert cabinet within the current Parliament, if they receive a mandate from Bulgaria’s head of state Rossen Plevneliev, even if they stand only 1% chance of forming such a cabinet, Sega daily informs on its first pages on Thursday. The newspaper specified that the Patriotic Front adopted that stand after it became clear that GERB would not support them to form another cabinet in the current Parliament. GERB changed their opinion due to differences expressed during the adoption of the social security budget.
A group of Afghani nationals, who will be expulsed from Bulgaria, left the migrant accommodation center in Harmanli on Wednesday, Standart daily informs. Over 400 people who took part at the riots last week left the migrant camp ever since. They were detained after the riot and later sent to migrant accommodation centers of Migration Directorate. The Afghani citizens who asked to leave Bulgaria voluntarily are currently residing at the migrant center in Elhovo and in other closed-type migrant centers, the newspaper further informs.
A day spent on the ski slopes in Bulgaria’s popular winter resorts Bansko and Borovets will cost around 50 Euro, a research of Monitor daily shows. Tourists can spend 30 Euros only, if they decide to use the ski lifts only and make their own food and drinks. However, if they decide to have a drink or a snack at the local restaurants and pubs, they would definitely spend around 50 Euros, provided they wear their own equipment. Otherwise, they will have to pay an extra EUR 15 for ski, sticks and ski shoes.
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