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The majority of Bulgaria's MPs on Thursday approved a report that recommends the revision of the procurement procedure for new fighter jets, alleging that there have been violations in the past.

MPs from the ruling centre-right party GERB of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov also indirectly accused President Rumen Radev of corruption.

Expansion of the Trakia highway with additional lane from Sofia to Plovdiv is contemplated by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

"I think how the Toll system could work on the Trakia highway to Plovdiv, we should make it 6 lanes," he told in Varna, where he participates in the tenth edition of the Summer University of the Youth GERB, FOCUS News Agency report.

The GERB members see a "politics activity" in the idea for the Prosecutor's Office to be out of the judiciary. This proposal was made yesterday by the chairman of the Supreme Court of Cassation Lozan Panov on a meeting with the President Rumen Radev.

"Everything has an end. No one is married to the powerand no one has to live thinking that this is an infinity", commented the deputy of the political party GERB and the Minister of Culture in two of the Borisov's cabinets, Vezdi Rashidov, concerning the question why he is not a Minister in the third. This reported the FOCUS News Agency. 

On the first government meeting of the Borisov 3 cabinet today, they will consider the nomination for a Bulgarian  EU Commissioner, according to BGNES.

During a phone call with the Bulgarian Prime Minister, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker urged the Bulgarian Government to nominate Bulgarian EU Commissioner as soon as possible.

Bulgaria's new government, a coalition between Boyko Borissov's centre-right party GERB and the nationalist United Patriots, assumed office on Thursday after it was voted in by the National Assembly.

MPs backed the Borissov-led cabinet with 133 votes in favour, 101 against and no abstentions.

The consultations of Bulgarian President Rumen Radev with the parliamentary group of Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) for Bulgaria started, according to FOCUS News Agency.

Locals in Bulgaria's three largest cities, Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, were due to stage protests on Monday demanding the resignation of the powerful Prosecutor General, Sotir Tsatsarov.

GERB leader Boyko Boirsov will head the talks for forming the new government, sources from the party said, quoted by BNR.

GERB members met at the party headquarters earlier today to discuss details from the election program that should now become the program of the government. Its key priorities will include the social sphere and public administration reform.

The most recent study of Alpha Research Group sociological agency forecasts a gap of 2.6 percent between GERB and Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) in the upcoming early parliamentary elections, according to BNR.

31.7 percent of those who have decided to vote would cast their ballot for GERB, while 29.1 percent say they would vote for BSP.