President says Bulgaria will stick to spending controls

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's president tried to reassure Sofia's European Union partners on Wednesday that any new government in his country would not ease controls on spending to appease a tide of public anger that brought down the last administration.

The protests were sparked by higher power prices but spread due to anger about the struggling economy, poor governance, injustice and corruption that plague the European Union's poorest country six years after it joined the bloc.