The Ministry of Finance diverted the protest of transport workers to the mayor of Sofia
The mayors of the municipalities are responsible for the management of the funds provided to them for the public transport of passengers. In the powers of each mayor, it is to determine the amount of remuneration in municipal companies. This was stated in a statement from the Ministry of Finance on the protest that began this morning for higher salaries in Sofia public transport companies.
The protesters, bearing the distinctive signs of the CITUB and Podkrepa unions, blocked three key intersections at 8 am – « Eagle Bridge », on Dragan Tsankov and Evlogi Georgiev Blvd and on Macedonia Square.
The traffic of cars is redirected by police to neighboring streets, a Dnevnik reporter saw. Bus drivers coming from Druzhba and Mladost warned the passengers that they would deviate from their usual route before the Eagle Bridge and suggested that they decide whether to get off or continue their journey. It also came to « Optional stops ».
Protesters from urban transport blocked three key intersections in Sofia
The subway was working, but the protesters entered the Vasil Levski Stadium stop, accompanied by police, and traveled to Sofia University.
Protesters have announced that there are reached there after three meetings in the Sofia Municipality have not produced a result, with an increase in wages only by BGN 100. However, workers over 7000 people in the system want a jump with 400 levs of wages. The initial plans were to target protesters by the Ministry of Finance and the Sofia Municipality by 10 o’clock.
The ministry is ahead of the ministry that the State Budget Act for 2025, adopted in March, the estimated total funds for subsidies and compensation amounts to BGN 522.3 million, with an increase of BGN 106.5 million compared to the 2024 Act. For subsidies for the Sofia Municipality for Internal City Transport, BGN 106 million has been provided or an increase of BGN 17 million compared to 2024 for subsidies for transportation of passengers by
Unprofitable bus lines, for all other municipalities without Sofia Municipality, in the Internal and Transport in mountainous and other regions have been provided with BGN 122 million or an increase of BGN 23 million compared to 2024 for compensation for reduced travel prices for all municipalities, incl. For the transport of children and students, BGN 294.3 million has been provided, which is an increase of BGN 66.5 million compared to the ZDBRB for 2024, according to the ministry’s report.
« In the powers of the mayor of the respective municipality, it is to take the necessary actions to finance all types of activities on the territory of the municipality for 2025. In addition, with the provision of Article 91
Al. 2 of the Law on the Law on the Law on 2025, the possibility of the unusual means of the budgets of the municipalities for the financing of state activities, with the exception of those in the function of « education », shall be provided by a decision of the Municipal Council for the activities in all functions, if this does not contradict the conditions laid down in the normative act, by which they are approved. According to reporting data as of 31.12.2024, a total of BGN 283.6 million was reported for the Sofia Municipality alone, « informs the department of Temenuzhka Petkova (GERB).
