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Protests held in Sofia and Plovdiv

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At a protest in front of the Council of Ministers in Sofia, leader of the "Izpravi se.BG" civic platform Maya Manolova called for a moratorium on the payment of heating bills for November in Sofia. According to her, there should be a moratorium until the end of the inspection ordered by the Minister of Energy on "Toplofikatsiya" - Sofia related to the method of price formation. The protest continued with a rally to the building of the Ministry of Energy.

A protest was also held in front of the Municipality of Plovdiv, where shop owners in shopping centers and representatives of restaurants expressed dissatisfaction with the losses they suffer due to closure as part of anti-epidemic measures. Protesters said that they did not agree with the fact measures applied to some and not to others, Kremena Daneva reported from Plovdiv.



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