Boiko Borisov

Minister of Regional Development Lilyana Pavlova and Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski will inspect the progress of the construction of Struma motorway on Saturday.

There are two segments in the 55-kilometer construction - one connects Dupnitsa and Blagoevgrad and the other, called lot 4 - Sandanski and the border with Greece at Kulata.

One of the Bulgarian government planes could be substituted as stated by Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski.

The idea involves selling the currently used 130-seat Airbus.

Bulgarian Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov announced Wednesday that in case the deficit is reduced more than expected, then the new debt can be decreased to BGN 6 B.

"There can be a decrease in the amount from BGN 8 B to BGN 6 B in case we manage to balance the budgets for 2015 through to 2017 fiscal years,'' he said, as reported by the Bulgarian National Radio.

President Rosen Plevneliev was expected to give GERB an official mandate to form a government on Wednesday.

Boiko Borisov, the Prime Minister from 2009 to 2013 and leader of Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria was thus expected to become Prime Minister once again, having overcome objections from GERB's new coalition partner, the centre-right Reformist Block.

Bulgaria's ABV party led by former President Georgi Parvanov has said it won't take part in a government coalition with centre-right GERB party.

The differences between ABV and GERB are so big that the answer is negative, Parvanov told BNR radio broadcaster on Friday.

The head of the BSP-led Coalition for Bulgaria parliamentary group Atanas Medrzhanov returned to President Rosen Plevneliev the mandate for formation of a government. 

“I decline to set up a government,” Merdzhanov told Plevneliev. “We are sticking to our agreements.” 

Bulgaria’s parliament voted out Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski’s government on Thursday, officially terminating the scandal-ridden one-year rule of the coalition between the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, and the ethnic-Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF.

Bulgaria's opposition GERB party, led by Boiko Borisov, received 30.40 per cent of the votes in European Parliamentary elections in the country, with the ruling BSP trailing well behind on 18.94 per cent.