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Prime Minister Kiril Petkov talks with protesters from Vazrazhdane party

| updated on 1/14/22 7:13 PM
Photo: gov.bg

The Prime Minister Kiril Petkov held a meeting with the representatives of the Vazrazhdane party, BNR has learned from its sources. Among them are the deputy chairmen of the party - Tsoncho Ganev and lawyer Petar Petrov, as well as Assoc. Prof. Atanas Mangarov, in his capacity of health expert of the political formation.

The meeting took place after a negative PCR test of Petkov. Until today, he was in isolation due to a positive result for Covid-19 of Parliament Speaker Nikola Minchev, given after the President's National Security Advisory Council on Monday.
The topic of the meeting between the Prime Minister and the representatives of Vazrazhdane is the Covid measures and the green certificate, the revocation of which is demanded by Vazrazhdane.
At the meeting, Vazrazhdane demanded that the Covid tests for students be dropped immediately, but Petkov refused, as he did for the other demand - the cancellation of the green certificate. Ganev announced that it was decided to form a working group on the topic of experts, supporters and opponents of Covid measures. 


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