UPDATE 1-Bulgaria president vetoes $1.26 billion deal for F-16 fighter jets
Deal biggest military purchase since Communism fall * Parliament could overturn president's veto (Adds ruling party comment, president's quotes) SOFIA, July 23 (Reuters) - Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Tuesday vetoed a deal to buy eight new Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets, describing a lack of consensus over the purchase as "extremely worrying". The $1.26 billion deal would be the country's biggest military purchase since the fall of Communism three decades ago. But Radev, a former air force commander, said the sharp disputes in ...
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