site.btaOn 40th Day of Anti-Government Protests, President Meets Protestors in Varna

Sofia/Varna, on the Black Sea, August 17 (BTA) - On the 40th day
 of protests against corruption, the government and the
Prosecutor General, President Rumen Radev met with protestors on
 the Black Sea city of Varna. He grabbed the opportunity to
blast  Prime Minister Boyko Borissov for the proposal for a new
Constitution put forward by his GERB party earlier the same day.
 "I call on everybody who care for Bulgaria's future, to not
fall in Borissov's trap. His aim is to make us forget
corruption, lawlessness and our demands for his resignation.
Resignation [of the government] is the only way out. We want
immediate resignation," said the Head of State.

He also said that the Prime Minister "is obviously not satisfied
 with how he had ruined the country" and wants to ruin it even
more.

In Sofia, the blockades remains at the central Eagles' Bridge,
Independence Square and the Sofia University intersection. In
the morning, activists of the Boec organization blocked briefly
the main entrance to the Justice Ministry and said they would
stage blockades at a different state institution every day until
 the government and the Prosecutor General resign.

Three of the recognizable faces of the protests, art professor
Velislav Minekov, lawyer Nikolai Hadjigenov and PR expert Arman
Babikyan held a brief news conference where they made public a
report about corruption in a municipal sanitation company.

In the late afternoon, protesting nurses rallied outside the
Health Ministry against the poor working conditions and low pay
during the coronavirus pandemic. Health Minister Kostadin
Angelov told reporters that while he is ready to meet each nurse
 and hear out her demands, he was not sure it was a protest of
nurses from all Bulgaria. LN/NV/