Bulgaria's President Demands Resignation After the Protests, Says Public Has Rejected the Cabinet

President Rumen Radev issued an urgent appeal on social media late this evening, demanding the resignation of the government and the scheduling of early parliamentary elections. His statement came as protests unfolded nationwide and as confrontations intensified in central Sofia. Radev described the scenes in the capital as a deliberate attempt by what he termed the mafia to engineer a clash between demonstrators and the police....