{"id":34277,"date":"2013-02-20T13:46:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=34277"},"modified":"2013-02-20T13:46:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:46:31","slug":"bulgarian-government-resignsthe-government-could-not-take-the-pressure-of-the-people-eu-news-34277","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/bulgarian-government-resignsthe-government-could-not-take-the-pressure-of-the-people-eu-news-34277\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian Government Resigns:The government could not take the pressure of the people \/ EU News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/borisov-resign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34298\" title=\"borisov-resign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/borisov-resign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/borisov-resign.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/borisov-resign-280x189.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/borisov-resign-531x360.jpg 531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>The Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov and his whole government is resigning from office after nationwide protests against austerity.<\/h1>\n<p>The Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov had tried to calm protests against high electricity prices by sacking his finance minister, pledging to cut power prices and punish foreign-owned companies but the measures failed to defuse discontent.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five people were taken to hospital after protesters clashed with police in the capital Sofia late on Tuesday while tens of thousands hit the streets over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Many Bulgarians are also unhappy over power monopolies, low living standards and corruption in the European Union&#8217;s poorest country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not participate in a government under which police are beating people,&#8221; said Mr Borisov who will hand in his resignation after a regular Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have dignity and honour. It is the people who put us in power and we give it back to them today,&#8221; the prime minister told parliament, adding that he would not participate in an interim government.<\/p>\n<p>The premier did not say if a parliamentary election scheduled for July would now be brought forward.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 11)<\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov and his whole government is resigning from office after nationwide protests against austerity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,14],"tags":[46296,46298,46295,2715,46297,46293,46294,3220,2714],"class_list":["post-34277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-boiko-borisov","tag-boiko-borisov-resigning","tag-bukgarian-prime-minister","tag-bulgaria","tag-bulgaria-natiowide-protests","tag-bulgarian-government-resigns","tag-bulgarian-people-preassure","tag-eu","tag-sofia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}