BSP

MPs will vote on GERB's proposal to postpone the introduction of the toll system for heavy goods vehicles.

The idea of ​​the government is for the technical start of the system to be in August, and the paid service to work from March 1, 2020.

Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) chair Korneliya Ninova has been elected to the presidium of the Socialist International, her party says.

In a vote during the global body's meeting in Cartagena, Columbia, she has been picked by 150 delegates.

There are as many as 32 Vice Presidential seats in the presidium.

Maya Manolova, deputy speaker of the previous Parliament, of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), admitted the party result was bad and people had punished them.

She told Nova TV she was dissatisfied with the election result of BSP.

"Obviously all of us made a mistake," she said. "It is a fact the people punished us. The results are clear."

Mihail Mikov has been elected Chair of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).

Mikov won a run-off with outgoing Economy and Energy Minister Dragomir Stoynev at the 48th Congress of BSP on Sunday.

A total of 762 delegates voted in the run-off stage of the election, with Stoynev backed by 333 votes and Mikov by 377. There were 16 invalid ballot papers and 710 valid ballot papers.

The resignation of socialist MP Georgi Kadiev was approved Friday with 89 votes in favor, 54 votes against and 14 abstentions.

Interview of Novinite.com and Novinite.bg with Tatyana Doncheva, former Bulgarian Socialist Party lawmaker, on the prospect of early parliamentary elections.

Mrs. Doncheva, how would you comment on DPS’s claims that there should be elections by the end of the year, stated by their leader Lyutvi Mestan on Thursday?