MRF

Turkish President Recep Erdogan extended an invitation for a meeting to the leadership of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) long time ago and the date had been fixed for after snap parliamentary elections in July.

The Supreme Administrative Prosecutor's Office (SAP) in Rosenets Park, where the summer beachside mansion of the honorary chairman of the MRF Ahmed Dogan is located, has established numerous violations following its inspection - lack of investment design and project documentation, no building permits issued, as well as data related to document falsification, reported Dnevnik.

The deputies approved the drastic reduction in parties' and coalitions' state funding from BGN 11 to BGN 1 per actual vote. The change was made with the second-reading amendments to the State Budget Act, BGNES reported.

The proposal for a smaller party subsidy was submitted by the Council of Ministers, and was supported by 119 votes. deputies  voted against and 16 abstained.

Bulgarian MP, businessman and media mogul Delyan Peevski - who was recently called "the iceberg of corruption in Bulgaria" by Germany's Der Spiegel - is giving up on business projects in Bulgaria, he announced on Monday.