Bulgaria’s printed media accentuate on Wednesday on the national referendum issue. The Central Election Commission was accused of counting the votes incorrectly. The Central Election Commission is sabotaging the referendum, Trud daily informs on its first pages. Standart daily writes that CEC employees counted the votes of the national referendum wrong. 24 Chassa informs that the Central Election Commission will count some votes again, after admitting about mistakes in some election protocols. Sega daily summarizes the problem under the heading The Success of the National Referendum Depends on 13,792 Envelopes, warning that if the Central Election Commission does not publish different results, the referendum would not be binding.

Sega daily informs on its first page that the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior is planning to send some illegal migrants back to Afghanistan in December. The readmission is based on agreement between Afghanistan and the EU. According to statistics of the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior, the number of Afghanistan migrants entering Bulgaria in the recent months is highest.

In an interview for Monitor daily Deputy Chairperson of the Municipal Council in Harmanli Svetlana Nikolova assured that dozens of cases of tropical disease leishmaniasis were registered at the refugee camp near Harmanli. Hundreds of migrants were infected with scabies. The medical authorities are yet to check that case. Since the beginning of 2016, three foreign nationals who sought asylum in Bulgaria were officially diagnosed with leishmaniasis.

Capital daily informs that the sales of the state-owned arms companies have increased in the first 9 months of 2016 due to the highest number of military conflicts worldwide. Vazovski machine-building plants in Sopot which was faced bankruptcy several years ago registered highest increase of its sales. Kintex also boosted its sales and marked a profit, after a period of deteriorating financial results.

Zemya daily announced that Greek dairy producers are protesting against speculative imports of cheap milk from Bulgaria and Macedonia. Most of the dairy quantities were imported from Bulgaria, where local dairy production has increased sharply in the past two years. Last year Greece imported over 43,000 tons of milk from Bulgaria and Macedonia, Zemya daily informs.