site.btaUPDATED Supporters of Vazrazhdane Party Block Roads to Three Border Crossings
Supporters of the Vazhrazhdane party Sunday blocked roads to the Gyueshevo, Dabune Bridge, and Danube Bridge 2 border crossings with North Macedonia and Romania, respectively. This was a second day of protests at border crossings, organized by the political formation over Thursday's Constitutional Court decision dismissing conclusively an initiative to hold a national referendum on keeping the lev as the country's only official currency until 2043.
According to the organizers, the Constitutional Court's decision tramples democracy in Bulgaria.
"We will not be an obstacle to people who are in a hurry, we simply want to express our civil position as well as that of the people who signed our petition for a referendum," MP Tsveta Rangelova said. She was among the protesters on the road to the Gyueshevo border control checkpoint.
MP Dimo Drenchev said that they will continue to express their position and stage protests. In his words, there will be a referendum, and it will be held in the way the Bulgarian people votes in the European elections.
The place of the protest was not announced in advance. The participants gathered in Kyustendil (Southwestern Bulgaria), from where they headed to the border crossing. They blocked the road for an hour, periodically allowing those travelling to the checkpoint to pass.
MP Zlatan Zlatanov, who joined the protest blocking the Danube Bridge crossing, said that the euro's introduction will be the last nail in the coffin of Bulgaria's national independence. The protest was preceded by a car procession in Ruse (on the Danube).
/DS/
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