The Coordinating Council for Organizing the Carriers’ Protest has decided not to protest today. Truck and bus drivers who are still unaware of the decision to postpone the protest have been returned by organizers.
The coordinators of the demonstrations, quoted by BNR, explained that there will be no protest on Thursday.
Carriers are also waiting for an answer why yesterday, with the available documents for the permission of the protest by the Sofia Municipality and the SDVR, they were not allowed in the center of Sofia.
BLIC recalls that on Tuesday night they blocked Tsarigradsko Shosse, where the police stopped their march to the city center. To prevent escalation of tensions, the protesters’ headquarters canceled today’s action.
This happened after that The Interior Ministry, led by Boyko Rashkov, did not allow protesters to enter Sofia, although they have the right to do so.. The carriers said that in addition to the Ministry of Interior, the Minister of Transport Nikolay Sabev has ordered the State Automobile Inspectorate to stop them for inspections.
“Last night, after long discussions, the protest headquarters decided that no protests would take place today. Today, on the move, we will decide how to proceed. What was crucial for us was what happened last night, that the police came and started acting “Out of the ordinary, in our opinion and for this reason we do not want there to be an escalation of tension. In order to prevent such tensions, we have decided that there will be no protests today,” said Yordan Arabadjiev of the Union of International Relations. carriers.
Today it became clear that the carriers have received permission from the Sofia Municipality and the police for protest actions for tomorrow and the day after. However, they have not yet decided when they will take advantage of this. Yordan Arabadjiev explained that the protesters are more oriented towards May 18, when they will be joined by representatives of other branch organizations.
The carriers received permission from the Sofia Municipality for demonstrations tomorrow and Friday.
The Minister of Education and Science Nikolay Denkov has called on the protesting carriers to comply with the mandatory state matriculation exam in Bulgarian language and literature on May 18.
According to a statement from the ministry, Denkov asked the public transport to work normally and not to block roads at least until 9 am and between 12 and 2.30 pm, so that the high school students can move normally to the places for the graduation exam and the collection them after the exam.
BLIC recalls that last week A spectacular scandal erupted between the carriers and Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, who expelled them during a meeting between them in the Council of Ministers (CoM), telling them that he was deciding what to say..
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