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   on January 3   

"Back in December last year, we announced who will be the candidate for prime minister. 

We have given the public and other parliamentary groups enough time

to familiarize themselves with our proposal. 

It was not like that with GERB – their candidate for prime minister only became clear when he went to take the mandate from the president. 

We have always invited all parliamentary groups to talks on the priorities of a possible administration".

Minchev recalled that with this mandate "We continue the change" offers a program of four main topics.

And he listed them: development of a competitive and innovative economy, rule of law and guaranteeing national security, overcoming social inequalities, access to quality education and health care and ensuring Bulgaria's energy independence.

Nikola Minchev: We want to rule the country, but we are not ready for unprincipled compromises

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Borisov: "There are things written inside, many of them irresponsibly, because these people have been ministers, prime ministers for 2 years, and many of these things could be in a very working phase or even completed."

Borisov rejected the proposal of the PP and announced: You are in isolation!

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The Sofia District Prosecutor's Office is reporting itself in connection with information about a threat against a journalist, the press center of the institution announced. 

On December 30, 2022, a file was opened at the Sofia District Prosecutor's Office after the journalist Dimitar Stoyanov reported on his social media profile that the tires of his official car were slashed.

He takes the act as making a threat to the entire team of the media he works for.

The prosecutor's office is self-reporting on information about a threat against a journalist

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Marijan Bonovski: If we had emergency air support, we could save about 25 thousand lives

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"What is striking about the Russian president's New Year's address is that for the first time since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Putin appeared surrounded by the military. 

The message is one - we are at war, mobilize, the West surrounds us". 

This is what the journalist Petar Karaboev said in the program "Face to Face" on BTV.

Western analysts say that even if Ukraine goes on the offensive and pushes Russian troops out, it is not certain that Putin will admit that Russia has lost the war.

Karaboev said.

Petar Karaboev: Even if Ukraine pushes Russia out, it is not certain that Putin will admit defeat

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They handed him 2 documents for administrative violations under the Road Traffic Act.

They found the criminal who crashed into two cars and ran away

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The Ministry of Internal Affairs has started disciplinary proceedings against an employee who hit several cars in Sofia, the department reports.

The proceedings are for two incidents in Sofia on December 31 - on Tsarigradsko Shosse Boulevard and at Aviation Square.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs chased the policeman who swept cars on New Year's Day

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The Bulgarian border police officer Petar Bachvarov, who was killed on the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, was

This is the main version that the Bulgarian and Turkish investigators are working on.

The reason for the murder of Sergeant Bachvarov became clear

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"The losses of the enemy amounted to 500 killed and wounded," said the Ukrainian High Command. According to him, it was an attack near the village of Chulakovka against Russian military and equipment on New Year's Eve.

Kyiv: 500 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in artillery shelling in the Kherson region

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The US police announced today that they are on alert for possible future attacks on the Capitol, reported Reuters.

"With the state of polarization in our country, an attack similar to the one our service faced on January 6, 2021 could be attempted again. If the unthinkable happens, we will be ready." 

US police brace for attacks ahead of second anniversary of Capitol storming 

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