The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) re-elected Plamen Dimitrov as its president for a five-year term.
Dimitrov, who has been CITUB's acting president since October 2010, said the confederation will seek a rise in the average salary by a real 25% at least by 2017, and called on the government to promote employment by all economic means, the state-run Bulgarian News Agency reported on Thursday.
Dimitrov identified the extraction industry, energy, metallurgy, machine construction, pharmaceutical and chemical industry, agriculture, food industry and tourism as the country's key industries.