Dupnitsa

Lot 2 of Bulgaria's Struma motorway running between the towns of Dupnitsa and Blagoevgrad is expected to be launched on Thursday.

The new section of the motorway has a length of 37.5 kilometres and the cost exceeded BGN 358 M, daily Dnevnik informs.

Lot 4 of Struma motorway between the Bulgarian town of Sandanski and the Kulata border checkpoint at the frontier with Greece will be officially launched on Thursday.

The project has been co-funded under the Transport Operational Programme 2007-2013.

The traffic on lot 2 of the Struma motorway between the Bulgarian towns of Dupnitsa and Blagoevgrad, will be launched by the end of October.

This was announced by Bulgarian Regional Minister Lilyana Pavlova, who inspected the construction works on the section of the motorway on Sunday.

Five people died as a car hit an electric pole, tumbling itself over and knocking the pole down in a southwestern Bulgarian village, police say.

The victims were the driver and four pedestrians whose bodies were smashed by the pole as they were crossing the street.

Bulgaria?s Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova has presented details about planned motorway construction in 2015.

An "unprincipled" coalition with national populist parties is even a worst scenario than new elections, the leader of liberal DPS, Lyutvi Mestan, warned.

The European route E-79 remained sealed off for hours on Monday as angry demonstrators voiced their anger at authorities' decision to hand out an MP seat to Aleksandar Metodiev from the DPS.

Metodiev, also known as "Bat Sali", will be among lawmakers representing the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) from the region of Kyustendil, a town in Bulgaria's south-west.

Hundreds are holding a rally in the town of Dupnitsa to vent their anger at the election of a controversial DPS lawmaker without enough votes cast in his favor.

Mayor Metodi Chimev is also among the demonstrators, who demand that Aleksandar Metodiev, also known as "Bat Sali" renounce his seat.

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The Union of Cattle Breeders called Friday a national protest on June 16 to express disgruntlement with institutional indifference to problems in the sector.

It announced the event after another organization representing stock breeders staged a 10-minute demonstration near the south-western town of Dupnitsa.