"The reason we came to the fuel crisis, of course, is not an internal problem for Bulgaria,” Transport Minister Petar Moutafchiev told Nova TV, commenting on the protest of truck drivers against the fuel excise duties.

"I was surprised when on May 15, together with the other matters we were to discuss with the freighter companies, they told me about the protest," he said. “I didn’t think it as an attempt to pressure me, because there is categorically a problem in the transport business,” according to the minister. That problem was Bulgarian firms were not competitive with European peers.

Former Sofia mayor Stefan Sofianski criticised the Cabinet on its handling of the Trakiya Highway on Bulgarian National Television. "Yesterday they remembered that there is a [budget] surplus and we could build the highway alone, he said. “All these means were available last year and the year before.”

“When they postpone your entry to the euro zone, what are you? You are in a rosy situation.”

Bulgarian National Audit Office head Valeri Dimitrov told private channel bTV that Bulgaria “lacked universal regulation on conflict of interests” and in was only now that the authorities were preparing law on conflict of interests.

“In many other state-owned institutions and municipalities there is the same problem,” Dimitrov said about the audit office’s report on irregularities in the National Road Infrastructure Fund. Most of the irregularities were related to the public procurements.

“We are not an investigative body, we don’t interrogate people,” he said. The irregularities revealed in the fund were way below the 100 million leva figure, broadcasted by the media. The Audit Office revealed suspicions for crimes worth around 20 million leva, he said.