Bulgarians Protest against Cabinet and New SANS Head

For a third day in a row, thousands of Bulgarians in Sofia and in other major cities protested in the streets to voice their discontent over the policies of the new government and oppose the decision of Parliament to appoint controversial MRF MP Delyan Peevski as Chair of the State Agency for National Security (SANS).

According to reports of the Interior Ministry, the rally taking place in downtown Sofia is attended by over 15 000, the demonstrators in Plovdiv are around 3,000 and the protesters in Varna are around 1,000.

The protesters are chanting «Mafia» and «Resignation», seeking an end of the rule of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, and nationalist party Ataka.

The people are demanding the resignation of the government of Prime Minister Oresharski, new elections, a change of the corrupt political model, and a new Constitution.

Adapted from Standart