Sat, Jul 04 2009
The effective strike of the teachers in Bulgaria continues for the fifth day on September 28 2007.
The strike committee organised a tent camp starting October 1 just in front of the offices of the President Georgi Purvanov, Focus news agency reported.
The protesters would collect signatures supporting their demands for higher salaries.
Everyday protest rallies would take place between 4.30pm and 7pm.
According to Focus, more than 90 per cent of the schools and kindergartens in cities like Plovdiv, Bourgas, Shoumen and Kazanluk went on strike.
Ataka and Order Law and Justice parties stage symbolic blockades at Bulgaria’s borders with Turkey on eve of July 5 2009 parliamentary election, while reports record influx of would-be voters and, it is claimed, flights are being chartered from Turkey.
In a blow against a problem that has been plaguing Bulgaria’s elections, State Agency for National Security and Interior Ministry say several people in a ‘major criminal organisation’ have been arrested for vote-buying, on the eve of the July 5 vote.
Barometer Info survey on July 3 2009, just ahead of the eve of Bulgaria’s national parliamentary elections, gives GERB 27.05 per cent and Sergei Stanishev’s Coalition for Bulgaria 19.09 per cent.
The exact number of people sacked from duty out of the 600 who refused to go to work on Monday is undisclosed, although reports claim that as of June 3 at least four people were told they were surplus to requirements.
Open your mind and face the unknown: the 2009 general elections in Bulgaria.