Pre-election promises in the crisis

On July 5 parliamentary elections will be held in Bulgaria. In a critical commentary the daily Standart writes that the parties of the Socialist-led ruling coalition are currently making a lot of pre-election promises in the hopes of winning: "Electricity will be cheaper, district heating companies will forego interest payments from their major debtors and the ministries will cut the salaries of the hated civil servants. It all sounds so good that you wish the three weeks until election day would never end. … But what will happen in autumn? Many experts predict that the recession will continue into the next quarter and people will end up on the street. Grim prognoses forecast double-digit unemployment figures. And after autumn will come an even harder winter. So we should be getting excited now about all the other promises that will come in the next three weeks before the elections."

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