GERB-SDS will propose power bill compensation so that students and pupils in dormitories pay the same as households, MP Yordanka Fandakova told a briefing in parliament. The party will table the proposal between the first and second readings of the budget law.

The compensation will also cover kindergartens, schools and houses of worship.

Fandakova said the party took the decision after meeting student councils. Students in dormitories pay for electricity at non-household rates, because dormitories belong to the universities, which are legal entities. She called this a huge injustice while prices are rising sharply. She said there is talk of compensation for business, but this large group of young people is being forgotten.

MP Alexander Ivanov said the average electricity price in Bulgaria is now above €232 per megawatt hour, while households pay €74. He said GERB does not forget children, students and houses of worship, so it wants them spared the high prices.

At the same briefing, former interior minister Daniel Mitov, now a GERB-SDS MP, criticised prime minister Rumen Radev over his trip to the ninth summit of the European Political Community in Dublin. Radev was there yesterday. Mitov said it is unclear what the prime minister signed, and with what reservations. "They came back and said they had signed with reservations, without saying what they were," he added.

"Again we have a Schrödinger foreign policy – we exist and we don't exist at the same time," Mitov said. He said Bulgaria's foreign policy is unclear and isolates the country.

Mitov believes that with such explanations Radev is speaking not to Bulgarian citizens but to "his masters in the Kremlin", signalling that he protects their interests in European formats. He also said that if the prime minister accepts the results of the talks in Abu Dhabi as reality, he is backing the Russian position. Moscow wants control over sovereign Ukrainian territory, which Ukraine does not agree to give up.

Mitov also replied to deputy speaker of parliament Ivan Angelov, who said this morning that the opposition is no longer needed. The former minister recalled that Bulgaria last had a parliament without an opposition before 1989, and that since then the people have chosen the opposition.

Mitov confirmed that as interior minister he stopped a public procurement for icons. "Yes, it was stopped, I stopped this order," he said. He said the order was carried out under minister Boyko Rashkov, who signed off on the icons.

"In our time last year, the statistics for people killed and injured on the roads were the lowest since such statistics have been kept at all," he said.

Last year Mitov also signed an order for electronic boards at the start of the Trakia motorway, opposite the Palace. He said the boards were delivered but have not been installed for eight months, and that they wanted to put them in conference rooms.