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Bulgarian anti-government demonstrators have found a new tactic to put pressure on the government: they are demanding their resignations in front of their homes.
The idea, reports Bulgarian daily Presa, was born on July 27 when, as "good neighbours," the demonstrators decided to go to the home of interior minister, Tsvetlin Yovtchev, to ask him for "salt, milk and oil". They were, however, stopped by police. As for finance minister, Pétar Tchobanov, he found himself, in a chic Sofia restaurant, surrounded by demonstrators demanding to know why the government is refusing to resign.
The demonstrators are trying out another technique, adds the paper. They are drowning politicians in text messages such as: "Comrades, Orecharski [the Bulgarian prime minister] has resigned. I told you not to abandon Sofia!"
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