Military personnel

Minister of Health Prof. Kostadin Angelov stated that government authorities are preparing a protocol for holding the parliamentary elections in a pandemic.

This happened at a meeting with The President Rumen Radev within the framework of consultations for holding safe parliamentary elections for the health of the citizens.

President Rumen Radev has begun consultations on holding fair, transparent and safe parliamentary elections for the health of citizens.

President Radev expressed the sympathy of our country with the Croatian people.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev held a telephone conversation with his Croatian counterpart Zoran Milanovic.

Rumen Radev expressed the sympathy of our country with the people and institutions of Croatia following the earthquake in the country, which led to human casualties and serious destruction.

"We have to get used to the new normalcy, we will not go back to life until March 2020," sociologist and MP of the "Bulgarian Socialist Party for Bulgaria" Prof. Ivo Hristov told BNR. He stressed that there is a disease, it is very insidious, but the reaction to this infection is disproportioned to what we have. "A lot more people died from swine flu than from Covid-19," he said.

After President Rumen Radev earlier today announced that there is no reason for the elections to be postponed and most likely they will be held on March 28, novini.bg sought the expert opinion of political scientist Lyubomir Stefanov to find out if we are ready for the upcoming vote in 2021.

The parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance will vote at first reading GERB's proposal to exempt Covid-19 vaccines from the indirect tax next year.

Lawmakers will also discuss President Rumen Radev's veto on texts of the VAT Act.

As of today, the reduced VAT rate for home food deliveries enters into force. The indirect levy will be 9% instead of the 20% that applies to most goods and services in the country,

This is yet another tax relief for the restaurant industry during the year because of the Covid-19 crisis.

President Rumen Radev described next year's budget as "inadequate to real situation and the challenges" which the country will face in 2021.

The Head of State also commented on the new restrictions coming into force tonight.

An Ankara prosecutor has called former chief of general staff, İlker Başbuğ, to testify over his indirect accusation against some ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmakers that they had initiated a legal amendment that paved the way for special authorized courts to prosecute military personnel in 2009.

Turkey's first drillship, Fatih, set sail from Istanbul's Haydarpaşa Port for a drilling mission in the Black Sea, Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez said on May 29.