Sun, Jul 05 2009
The State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (SCEWR) confirmed new higher ceiling prices for water supply and sewerage services for 21 sewerage companies in Bulgaria, the SCEWR said in a statement on November 30. The prices refer to prices for households and take effect on December 1 this year.
The water supply operators requested the price increases in early November on the grounds of electricity price hikes as of July 1 this year. Electricity prices represents a big component in the spending column.
Among regional water and sewerage companies to have requested a price hike are Isperih, Razgrad, Kubrat and Plovdiv. The prices charged per cu m range between 0.69 leva per cu m and 1.46 leva per cu m.
Ataka and Order Law and Justice parties stage symbolic blockades at Bulgaria’s borders with Turkey on eve of July 5 2009 parliamentary election, while reports record influx of would-be voters and, it is claimed, flights are being chartered from Turkey.
In a blow against a problem that has been plaguing Bulgaria’s elections, State Agency for National Security and Interior Ministry say several people in a ‘major criminal organisation’ have been arrested for vote-buying, on the eve of the July 5 vote.
Barometer Info survey on July 3 2009, just ahead of the eve of Bulgaria’s national parliamentary elections, gives GERB 27.05 per cent and Sergei Stanishev’s Coalition for Bulgaria 19.09 per cent.
The exact number of people sacked from duty out of the 600 who refused to go to work on Monday is undisclosed, although reports claim that as of June 3 at least four people were told they were surplus to requirements.
Open your mind and face the unknown: the 2009 general elections in Bulgaria.