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The crowd booed the Mayor of Plovdiv, Zdravko Dimitrov, during his speech at the solemn ceremony on the occasion of the 135th anniversary of the Union of the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. The chanted “Resignation!” It was constantly heard.
The ceremony took place in the city’s Saedinenie Square and was broadcast live on BNT1.
Among the official guests were the President and Vice President, the Speaker of the National Assembly, deputies, ministers, the Chief of Defense, generals and officers, mayors.
The president: repression cannot stop an awakened nation
In his speech, President Rumen Radev stressed that while free Bulgaria had a Constitution in Tarnovo, the Bulgarians of Eastern Rumelia were forced to have an organic Statute, a nefarious Constitution that assigned them the role of silent subjects.
Union activists corrected this historic injustice, emphasized the head of state, adding that “in those days the revived Bulgaria showed the world how civilized, without violence, an enlightened people of the faith of our revivalists gathers under the common roof of its historic homeland and has no power to stop it. “
According to him, the victory of the Bulgarian captains over the foreign generals in the war that followed proved that the Union was an irreversible act and the Bulgarians were ready to defend their freedom. Bold, freedom-loving people of principle and determination are always in our history, even when our people seem reconciled, Radev added.
We know from the Union, from the entire history of the Renaissance, that lies, cunning, repression and political intrigue cannot stop an awakened nation, which has headed towards its fulfilled future, the President emphasized.
The protest in Plovdiv
Earlier tonight, a protest march took place in the center of Plovdiv demanding the resignation of the government and chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev.
The procession started from the Central Square and after a thorough inspection of one of the checkpoints in Saedinenie Square, the protesters joined the spectators in the ceremonial inspection of fireworks.
They installed a 50-meter tricolor on the boulevard.
