After they failed to agree on how to deal with the demands of road construction companies last week, the factions from the ruling coalition submitted two diverging bills to Parliament on Monday. The proposal of WCC of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is to pay off only half of the demanded 1 billion BGN for repairs with the budget of the Road Agency, while TISP (which controls the Regional Ministry) wants the government to pay the road companies in full. In other news:
In retaliation for spy allegations, Moscow sends off more Bulgarian diplomats
The Russian foreign ministry said on Monday that it had declared some employees of the Bulgarian embassy in Moscow "persona non grata" in response to Sofia's decision to expel 10 Russian diplomats in March. The announcement did not specify how many Bulgarian diplomats were no longer welcome to Russia, according to Reuters. Last week, Russia expelled two Bulgarian diplomats from its embassy in Moscow.
91,000 Ukrainians have sought shelter in Bulgaria
The number of Ukrainian refugees in Bulgaria has exceeded 91,000 according to information from the Bulgaria for Ukraine government portal posted on Monday. According to data, the precise number of Ukrainans who have sought shelter in the country is 91 071. Of them, 80,131 are registered under the temporary European protection scheme granted by the EU, which allows them to work, study, live in Bulgaria and benefit from health and social services. Since the beginning of the war, 194 295 Ukrainian citizens have crossed into Bulgaria, while more than 4.9 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
WCC loses steam, while Vazrazhdane climbs to fourth place: Alpha Research
The largest party in the ruling coalition, WCC, has continued to lose support since taking power last December and now ranks second, with 18.7 percent of the vote, behind GERB (21.7 percent) in an electoral attitudes survey carried out by the Alpha Research agency. The most significant turnaround, however, is that of the radical pro-Russian Vazrazhdane party, which has more than doubled its support since the election and now enjoys 9.4 percent of the vote - just 0.6 percent behind the third largest party, BSP.
After they failed to agree on how to deal with the demands of road construction companies last week, the factions from the ruling coalition submitted two diverging bills to Parliament on Monday. The proposal of WCC of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is to pay off only half of the demanded 1 billion BGN for repairs with the budget of the Road Agency, while TISP (which controls the Regional Ministry) wants the government to pay the road companies in full. In other news:
