The Christmas decorations in Sliven this year cost the municipality BGN 113,918 excluding VAT and, according to some people, offer inflated prices for putting them up and taking them down.

The new acquisitions in the Christmas decoration - luminous gnome and boot cost about BGN 25,000.

The choice of a contractor who has allegedly been the same for 5 years and regularly wins public contracts - a Sliven company which is also considered part of the problem.

Pepa Chilikova, who is the deputy mayor of the Municipality of Sliven, commented that every year the policy is to decorate the city, which is approved by the congregants.

He added that they comply with the law and that the criteria in the public procurement are not prepared in such a way that a specific company wins

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