The protesters, many of whom arrived in buses for the rally, pushed back the police cordon around Parliament and reached the front door of the building.
They barred entry and called upon the MPs to come out and fulfill their demands. Several people, including police officers, were injured during the brief clash.
Waving the national flag and flag of the ultra-nationalist revival party that organized the rally, he raised slogans of “freedom” and “mafia” and denounced all measures against the virus.
“I do not approve of green certificates. I do not accept that children are being prevented from attending classes. I don’t see the logic of these things,” 39-year-old engineer Asparuh Mitov told Reuters at the start of the rally. ,
Bulgarians are required to wear masks indoors and on public transport and to show health passes to restaurants, cafes and shopping malls and gyms for those who have been vaccinated, recovered or tested negative for the virus has been tested.
Bulgaria, the country with the least immunization in the European Union, reported a record high daily infections on Wednesday, driven largely by the highly infectious Omicron variant.
Prime Minister Kirill Petkov, who took office last month and pledged to vaccinate the Balkan country, told BTV channel he was sorry he could not meet the protesters but was prepared to do so on Friday, when his The quarantine will end. Petkov, President Rumen Radev and senior ministers went into self-isolation on Monday after a participant in a security meeting tested positive for the coronavirus.
He reiterated that the health pass would not be removed.
“At this point in time, when cases are rising, and the link between the number of people vaccinated and the health pass is being understood, it cannot be removed,” Petkov said.
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