Maya Manolova

Electoral attitudes in Sofia Municipality show that there will be a runoff voting between Yordanka Fandakova and Maya Manolova in Sofia.

This is according to a study by the Center for Analysis and Marketing, cited by Bulgaria ON AIR.

Maya Manolova presented her program as а candidate for mayor to run the capital.

Maya Manolova presented her management program as candidate for mayor of Sofia. It contains 23 measures. The former Ombudsman promised a clean and green capital, as well as a digitalization of the Metropolitan Municipality. The candidate for mayor of the capital announced that she will manage transparently and make a complete revision of Toplofikatsiya Sofia and the municipal companies.

Today is the deadline for submitting bids to the Sofia Municipality for cleaning Sofia and collecting waste over the next 5 years.

Initially, the deadline was August 21, but after that it was extended. The total procurement amounted to BGN 430 million.

Citizens and institutions have laid wreaths and flowers at the Memorial Tomb of Alexander I of Battenberg on this 6 September to mark the 134th anniversary of the reunification of Bulgaria, FOCUS News Agency reports.
Wreaths were laid by hundreds of citizens, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova, Sofia mayoral candidate Maya Manolova and MPs.

Bulgaria's new interim ombudsman will be appointed by the parliament today. Diana Kovacheva, who was formerly Maya Manolova's deputy, will be sworn in.

She will hold the position until the election of a new national public defender. Manolova deposited her resignation in order to enter the upcoming mayoral battle of Sofia.

There are four candidates for mayor of Sofia who have so far said they will fight for the post.

For current mayor Yordanka Fandakova, this will be a battle for a fourth term. As she entered this race, she said that Sofia's development was a cause for her and "long-distance running", in which maintaining the pace was important.

Maya Manolova resigns as an Ombudsman to run for mayor of Sofia. She announced this herself late Monday with a video uploaded to Facebook. The Ombudsman's press centre announced that she would deposit her resignation to the National Assembly at 15:30 today.

Today, Maya Manolova is expected to resign as ombudsman and enter the race for mayor post in Sofia.

Manolova's nomination will be launched by an Initiative Committee. The BSP has not yet decided whether they will apply or support Maya Manolova.

Today, the Socialists will meet to discuss it. The National Council will approve some of the candidates for mayor of the party.

Ombudsman Maya Manolova is organizing a meeting of responsible national institutions and Bulgarian citizens living and working in the UK on the occasion of the UK's exit from the EU, the Ombudsman's press center said.