An audit of Bulgarian Posts has turned up a string of failures in how the company is run. Transport minister Georgi Peev gave the findings at a snap hearing in parliament's transport committee.

The check found that the postal operator has no real business outside spending its subsidy and leans on outside services instead. It also turned up consultancy contracts with no clear purpose, plus payments for legal and consultancy work on public tenders that the company should be handling itself.

The new management has gone through more than 200 contracts and cancelled the ones it found unjustified, Peev said. The paperwork for the report to the European Commission on the postal restructuring plan is ready, and Peev said this matters most, since it will decide how big future subsidies are.

On Saturday, Bulgarian Railways trains on the main lines will run free, as the remains of Tsar Samuil are brought back to Bulgaria and placed in a sarcophagus at St Sofia church. Peev said free travel was laid on so as many people as possible from across the country can attend.

Road safety reform won't mean building a new "mega-structure" but digitising the system, Peev said. Control over roads will move to the interior ministry, and no one at the Road Transport Administration Executive Agency will lose their job.

Peev promised to look into the status of Kazichene station, known as the Tsar's Station, and whether its repair could be folded into the current Sofia-Elin Pelin rail project or made a separate project. The national railway infrastructure company, NRIC, must also go through all stations of historical and architectural value and draw up a separate plan to restore them.

The draft 2027 budget includes a rise in low base pay across the sector.