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Bulgaria's opposition boycotts parliament as protests rage

Bulgaria's biggest political party said Tuesday it was boycotting parliamentary sittings amid unrelenting public outrage over the appointment of a media magnate to a top security post.The decision by the conservative opposition GERB party added pressure on the three-week-old ruling coalition, and fuelled fears of a new political crisis as anti-government street protests stretched into a fifth straight day across Bulgaria."We will not show up in parliament anymore," GERB leader and former prime minister Boyko Borisov said.Thousands of Bulgarians have poured onto the streets in the EU's poorest country since Friday to protest the controversial appointment of the inexperienced but well-connected lawmaker Delyan Peevski as chief of the powerful DANS security agency.Peevski is understood to be behind a media empire of newspapers and a television, officially owned by his mother.Even though Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski has reversed the decision, protesters have not been appeased. Instead,...

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