The Cabinet of Ministers will make a decision to provide a 5% increase in salaries in post offices, BDZ, NRIC and urban transport in all municipalities. The funds will be provided as an additional subsidy within the framework of the currently effective law on the extension budget. This became clear during a briefing after negotiations between ministers and representatives of the unions for a 5% increase in salaries for workers in some sectors.
„The Cabinet of Ministers will adopt two decisions today in connection with a 5% increase in the subsidy for organizations in the country that are not budgetary, but receive a subsidy from the budget. The extension law provided for an increase only for budgetary organizations, but not for those that receive a subsidy. Today, with these two acts, we will equalize the treatment“, explained the acting Minister of Finance Georgi Klisurski.
Klisurski specified that the total support will be 31.3 million euros.
„This is a one-time amount within the framework of the current extension law. When it comes to the adoption of a regular budget, there will be talks about what the overall size of the subsidy should be, how much the increases in all sectors of the state should be, but now we are equalizing BDZ, NRIC, post offices and urban transport systems with all other budget organizations that have already received their 5% increase”, he added.
„We held a discussion, a dialogue on specific problems, because these problems are becoming cyclical. Periodically we see strikes and discontent, and the entire geopolitics around us and around the world no longer allows institutions not to work actively, for there to be problems in them, and for enterprises to be unreformed. This dialogue will continue in the future“, said the acting Minister of Transport Korman Ismailov.
He specified that over 14 million euros will pass through the Ministry of Transport – for “BDZ –passenger transportation” - over 5 million 825 thousand euros are planned, for NRIC over 9 million euros. Transfers for other target expenditures of municipalities for 2026 – total amount over 11 million euros, of which subsidies for passenger transport on unprofitable bus lines - inner-city transport and mountain areas - over 5 million euros, for the Bulgarian Transport Authority at 5 million euros.
It also became clear that when preparing the regular budget there will be additional costs for subsidies and to the income of those working in these areas.
According to the leader of the Confederation of Bulgarian Trade Unions Plamen Dimitrov after the elections, whatever the government, the regular budget will be the same as the second one proposed by the cabinet at the end of last year or will be covered at least 90% with this state plan-account.
Dimitrov claims that this year people expect at least a 15% increase in income to compensate for the inflation accumulated since last year.