Sofia university students join anti-government protests
Alexey Axe
The student action united students from at least four capital universities and took place on the steps of the oldest Sofia University named after St. Clement of Ohrid.
Young people demanded the resignation of the pro-Western government of Boyko Borisov and Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, students from Sofia University named after St. Clement of Ohrid, the University of National and World Economy, Sofia Technical University and the University of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy and other universities took part in the student action. The students said that after 100 days of anti-government protests that did not bring results - the cabinet of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov continues to remain in power, they decided to support the protest movement and from that day on actively participate in it.
“The corruption in which both this administration and, accordingly, the prosecutor’s office are mired have reached the maximum level,” Volen Vushkov, a student at the Faculty of Law of the Sofia University named after St. Kliment Ohridski, commented on the situation to the BNR. – These are some completely rotten institutions that do not fulfill the tasks assigned to them. Instead, they use powers, benefits, and serve the oligarchs for their own personal purposes. And the people are in last place in their system of priorities.”
Tellingly, earlier 33 professors from the Sofia University named after St. Kliment Ohrid, the New Bulgarian University and the University of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy wrote an open letter in support of the protest:
“In recent years, dissatisfaction with the state governance model has been growing in our society. Among the characteristics of this model, recognized by a significant part of society as a serious problem: the merger of the state and oligarchic business; corruption; an umbrella of patronage of certain individuals coupled with the ruthless use of law enforcement and the judiciary as a cudgel against inconvenient civil society and the opposition; suppression of freedom of speech, social hopelessness,” the letter said.
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