Exciting News: Opening of Varna's New Central Bus Station in May
Architects Martin Hristov and Galina Baleva, who have crafted the design, revealed that a novel central bus station in Varna is scheduled to be inaugurated in late May
Borislav Gutsanov, former chair of Varna municipal council and member of the Executive Board of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, who was arrested last year in a high-profile police operation on embezzlement allegations, will run for mayor.
Gutsanov has been nominated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party and is its sole candidate for the prestigious office in the city of Varna, known as the country's sea capital. In the upcoming local elections in October he will also top the party's list of municipal councilors.
Borislav Gutsanov was arrested alongside the Director of the Varna municipality 'autotransport' department, Pencho Penchev and Yana Krusteva, the department's Chief Accountant, at the end of March last year in a high-profile police operation code-named the Jellyfish.
Businessman Daniel Slavov aka Dido Dunkata was also taken into custody after being arrested in his own Hotel 'Capitol'.
The detentions came on allegations of a number of crimes, including the masterminding of a crime gang, including high-ranking officials, embezzlement and malfeasance in office, forging of documents.
Prosecutors claimed Gutsanov led a criminal group in the period 2003-2007, an allegation, which they said was backed by solid evidence. After spending nearly two months behind the bars however he was released on bail.
Gutsanov was removed from his post in the municipal council at the end of April. He has repeatedly said that the trial against him is political and has threatened to sue Bulgaria in the Human Rights Court in Strasbourg over police brutality during the arrest.
Borislav Gutsanov has been a member of the Executive Board of the National Council of the BSP since November 2009, responsible for local government and regional policy. He was top of the BSP list during the municipal council elections in 2007 and was soon elected as Chair of the Varna municipality council. During the 2009 general elections Gutsanov was second on the BSP list for the Varna region behind party leader and ex PM Sergey Stanishev.
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The Commission for Protection of Personal Data has fined Bulgaria's Foreign Affairs Ministry for making public nearly 37 000 permanent addresses in the country of Bulgarian voters residing abroad.
Bulgaria spared over BGN 8 M in state budget money by carrying out its local and presidential elections on the same date in 2011, the country's Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has stated.
Former Justice Minister Margarita Popova was nominated by the ruling centrist-right party GERB to run for Vice President of Bulgaria in the elections that took place on October 23 2011.
Rosen Plevneliev, former Bulgarian Regional Development Minister, was elected President on the ticket of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria part (GERB) on October 30 2011.
Rosen Plevneliev, Bulgaria's newly elected President, will be officially sworn in on Thursday.
Bulgaria's President-elect and Vice President-elect, Rosen Plevneliev and Margarita Popova, will take the oath of office before the National Assembly on Thursday, January 19.
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