SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's government will use its majority in parliament to enforce its decision not to build a new nuclear power plant, despite Bulgarians backing its construction in a referendum just months before a national election.
Although 60.6 percent of those who voted supported building the plant at Belene on the Danube, hoping it would create jobs and cut power bills, official data on Tuesday showed turnout on Sunday was 20.2 percent - too low to make it binding.
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