The Mayor of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Boyko Borisov, assuaged Sunday fears that several large quarters of the city faced a garbage crisis.

As the contracts of the old garbage collection concessionaire, "Nover", expired on Saturday, the firm started to remove its waste containers from five Sofia quarters - Mladost, Lyulin, Ovcha Kupel, Vitosha, and Triaditsa.

Mayor Borisov announced, however, that the new concessionaires - "Titan" in Mladost and Vitosha, and the municipal company "Chistota Iskar" in the other three quarters - had stepped in, and the capital was not faced with a garbage crisis.

According to Borisov, there only way there could be a garbage crisis in Sofia was if it was caused by political forces.

"Isn't this the same Minister who was supposed to give answers yesterday about the nine deaths in the Sofia-Kardam train fire?", Borisov said when asked to comment on Minister of Transport Mutafchiev's statements that Borisov's party GERB was involved in vote buying in the local elections in the town of Rakovski.

The Sofia Mayor, who is also the GERB party leader, said that in the Rakovski elections GERB had managed to defeat a coalition of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), and of the far-right party Ataka, all of which supported the independent candidate Petar Antonov.

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