PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Oct 19
SOFIA, Oct 19 (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.
-- Bulgaria's health insurance fund will end 2016 with a deficit of about 50 million levs ($28.08 million), which it will transfer and pay via next year's budget. This will burden additionally the 2017 budget, which will be insufficient to cover hospitals' expenses, medicines and payments to foreign health funds (Trud, Standart, 24 Chasa, Sega, Monitor)
-- The energy ministry has decided to dismiss the ministers from the former Socialist-led government - Asen Gagauzov, Petar Dimitrov and Rumen Ovcharov, as members of the management boards of state energy enterprises (Trud, Standart, Monitor)
-- Bulgaria's government appears to favour Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump to win the U.S. presidential elections, the European Council on Foreign Relations said in a scorecard
-- Lokomotiv Plovdiv's Ilian Iliev has become the seventh coach to quit or be sacked just three months into the Bulgarian soccer season (Tema Sport, Standart, Trud, Monitor, 24 Chasa) ($1 = 1.7804 leva)
