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Bulgaria's former BSP Deputy Economy Minister from the previous Three-Way Coalition cabinet, Yavor Kuyumdzhiev. Photo by BGNES
The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) have accused the National Statistics Institute (NSI) of falsifying data on the number of employed people in the country.
The Bulgarian "Duma" newspaper (the print tribune of the leftist movement in Bulgaria) claimed that NSI has changed data from 2005 and has intentionally reduced the number of employed at that time in order to decrease the difference between the data from the end of 2010 and from 2005, when Bulgarian was governed by the previous Three-way Coalition.
According to "Duma", the institute has even falsified data that had already been submitted to Eurostat, the EU's statistical office.
Data from the end of 2005 showed that the number of employed people in Bulgaria was 3.42 million, according to Eurostat, while the NSI data showed that the number was 2.98 million, the newspaper stated.
There was also a discrepancy in the data for the second quarter of 2009. According to NSI, the number of employed at that time was 3.3 million, while Eurostat stated that the number was 3.87 million.
The data was amended in the official documents of NSI, which are used by the government as a basis on which the cabinet explains its policies.
"This is a brutal manipulation and a blatant lie, which aims just one thing – to cover the total collapse of the Bulgarian economy during the ruling of the GERB party," said former BSP Deputy Economy Minister from the previous Three-Way Coalition cabinet, Yavor Kuyumdzhiev.
In his words, the actual number of people who lost their jobs in the last year was 500 000, while NSI reported only 276 000.
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