Bulgaria’s political crisis: A tale of two protests, in photos [1]

The Sofia Globe - Staff, 8/16/13

On the day that Bulgaria’s lawmakers overturned the presidential veto on the Budget revision, the National Assembly building, fittingly, found itself in between two very different crowds – one made of the pro-government supporters bussed into Sofia and another made of people demanding the government’s resignation.

As the debate inside the National Assembly drew to a close, the placement of the pro-government rally was shown to have had another goal – forming a buffer for MPs to escape the scene using the Parliament’s , in contrast to the July 23 episode in which a busload of MPs under police escort was directed into a crowd of several thousand anti-government protesters.

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