Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party and a governing coalition partner, the ultra-nationalist VMRO, reached a deal on September 2 on tabling a draft new constitution and a vote calling for the convening of a Grand National Assembly.
On the same day, September 2, there were confrontations outside Bulgaria‘s Parliament as thousands of participants in what was billed as a “Great National Uprising” protest clashed with a large contingent of gendarmerie guarding the building.
The scenes came after more than 50 days of protests in Bulgaria demanding the resignation of Boiko Borissov’s government and Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev, and as the National Assembly met for the first day of its autumn session, this time in its new plenary hall in the “Party House” former headquarters of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
Large numbers of people from elsewhere in Bulgaria came to capital city Sofia to take part in the September 2 protest.
Inside Parliament, President Roumen Radev, repeated his call for the government to resign. MPs for Borissov’s GERB party and for its ultra-nationalist minority partner in government, as well as Parliament’s smallest party, Volya, walked out.
