“What we are talking about here is whether Bulgarians, on election day, have a right to choose at all,” Emil Koshloukov, leader of the small right-wing Novoto Vreme party told Bulgarian National Television's morning show in a discussion on the changes to Bulgaria's political system being debated by Bulgarian politicians.

“If the current status quo remains unchanged, the big loser will be exactly the politicians,” Marina Dikova, deputy chairperson of the National Movement for Stability and Progress added.

“The basic problem with the project to dispose of old amunition was the lack of funding,” Bulgaria's former Defence Minister Nikolai Svinarov told the morning show of Nova TV in a discussion on who should assume the responsibility for the July 3 blasts at a military warehouse in Chelopechene, near Sofia.