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Demonstration against restrictive measures in front of government buildings

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A protest entitled "It's time for the masks to fall" was held in front of the National Assembly building, the presidency and the Ministry of Health, organized by the non-parliamentary Vazrazhdane party. The participants in the campaign spoke out against the restrictive measures, the obligatory wearing of masks and the division of people into vaccinated and unvaccinated. 

"We went to war for our rights and freedoms, we do not want our country to be turned into a concentration camp with the first and second category of people," said party leader Kostadin Kostadinov. 
"Deputies do not wear masks in parliament, but oblige my child to wear them to school. I do not intend to comply with their measures, "added one of the demonstrators.



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