PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Sept 24
SOFIA, Sept 24 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- If the early parliamentary elections were held today, 36.5 percent of Bulgarians would vote for the centre-right GERB party versus 20.2 percent for the Socialist party (BSP), a poll by Exacta Research Group showed (Trud, Standart, Sega, Presa, Capital daily).
-- Troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) majority shareholder Tsvetan Vassilev has pledged to do anything to rescue the lender and has claimed to have irrefutable evidence of "manipulations" against the bank at disposal (Trud, Standart, Sega, Presa, Monitor).
-- Interim Economy Minister Vasil Shtonov has suggested that a new gas crisis in Bulgaria is very likely, adding the Balkan country would face an extremely difficult situation in the case of an interruption of gas supplies from Ukraine (Presa, Monitor, Capital daily, 24 Chasa).
-- Household deposits rose to 38.99 billion levs (25.61 billion US dollar) at the end of August, an 8.5 percent increase on an annual basis, central bank's data showed (Standart, Trud, Sega, Presa).
-- Europe's biggest copper maker, Aurubis plans to invest almost 75 million euros (96.34 million US dollar) in its plant in the town of Pirdop (Standart, Capital daily).
(1 US dollar = 1.5224 Bulgarian lev) (1 US dollar = 0.7785 euro)
