Dialogue between employers and trade unions has been restored. Meetings will begin tomorrow at the Ministry of Finance, at which all the details will be smoothed out. This was written by the leader of GERB, Boyko Borisov, on his Facebook page.
The state stands behind every Bulgarian citizen, he also states, pointing out that they united around this at a meeting at the headquarters of GERB with the Minister of Finance, Temenuzhka Petkova, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Innovation and Growth, Tomislav Donchev, the chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee, Delyan Dobrev, the former Minister of Finance, Vladislav Goranov, as well as employers from the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (CEIB) and the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), represented by Kiril Domuschiev and Dobri Mitrev. Representatives of the two national trade unions, CIT “Support” and the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria (CITUB), in the persons of Dimitar Manolov and Lyuboslav Kostov, were also present at the meeting.
The working groups and the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation (NCTC) will also be restored. Representatives of the four parties that support the government will participate in the discussions on Budget 2026, Borisov also writes.
Earlier today, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov told journalists in parliament that they would sit at the negotiating table, would try again to restore dialogue with trade unions and employers, and would try to achieve such macroeconomic parameters of the budget as to be satisfactory for a large part of the business and for a large part of society.