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"The bloody evening clashes in front of parliament caused tensions to rise between those in power and the demonstrators," reports Bulgarian daily Standart. The paper stresses that the police action on July 23 to evacuate the MPs and the ministers blockaded inside the parliament building by the demonstrators left about 10 injured.
On the one hand, reports Standart, the vice-president of the Socialist Party, Yanaki Stoilov, says that "it is only in Arab countries that governments resign because of 2,000 to 3,000 protesters".
On the other hand, while the demonstrators have stated on Facebook that they are ready to maintain the siege of the parliament, a dissident group using the hashtag #ДАНСwithme, is distancing itself from what it considers provocation and is using social media to stress the pacifist nature of the demonstrations.
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