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The Bulgarian government on August 26 embarked on an unprecedented programme to replace top-ranking public officials, which several observers have described as a political purge, reports Trud.

Public servants in charge of the state Fund for Agriculture, Investment Agency, Archives Agency, Customs Service, military police and National Statistics Institute, as well as the chairman of the National Agency for Transport Infrastructure are all to be replaced.

For its part, the country’s parliament has announced its intention to close the Centre for the Study of Public Opinion, Bulgaria’s main polling organisation, which it described as “pointless”.

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