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“The most difficult year and a half is coming, we are preparing a plan to face it. Whoever governs must have a plan,” said Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who today inspected the capital’s ring road in his jeep. The government’s socio-economic measures to cope with the effects of the pandemic were also discussed.
The prime minister started the tour of the ring road from the newly built bridge over Lozen and announced that on September 7, traffic will start on the South Arch – towards “Mladost”. With him was the Minister of Economy, Lachezar Borisov.
“When we publish it, Sofia will start to breathe,” said the prime minister.
“We have made a move not to close the entire stretch and bottle up traffic. This part has new water supply, sewerage, lighting. “The changes can be seen in 30 days,” Borissov said of the bridge to Lozen. “In five minutes, people will arrive from Mladost to Trakia. They work 24 hours. It is a huge traffic, they will see how the city breathes.” he added as he drove the jeep past the new bridge being built for Gorublyane.
Subsequently, the Prime Minister met with the President of the Podkrepa Labor Confederation, Dimitar Manolov, and with representatives of the Mini Maritsa East unions. CITUB President Plamen Dimitrov also joined the conversation by phone. During the meeting it was decided to urgently convene the Council of the Branch of Tripartite Cooperation, Mining and Geology of the Ministry of Energy with the participation of the national representative unions “Podkrepa” and “CITUB”. In this format, the objective is to discuss the prospects for resolving outstanding issues regarding the future of the Maritza East complex. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, September 8, the government press service reported.
Today’s meeting, which was also attended by Economy Minister Lachezar Borisov, Deputy Energy Minister Zhecho Stankov and Stara Zagora Mayor Zhivko Todorov, also discussed the government’s socio-economic measures to deal with the effects of the pandemic. Special emphasis was placed on the Cabinet’s efforts to preserve employment in the country and in particular measure 60/40, which also benefited workers in the mining industry. The last tranche received from Mini Maritsa East under this measure corresponds to the month of July and amounts to more than BGN 104,000.
