Opposition seeks Parliament speaker’s resignation over journalist incident
Journalist Sonya Koltuklieva was pushed by an officer of the National Security Service and fell onto the pavement outside the headquarters of Progressive Bulgaria in Sofia. The incident occurred on the evening of October 22, shortly after Prime Minister Rumen Radev’s briefing, while the journalist was trying to ask National Assembly Speaker Mihaela Dotsova a question. Video footage of the incident shows Koltuklieva opening the door of the official vehicle in which Dotsova was sitting. At that moment, a security officer pushed Koltuklieva, causing her to fall backward onto the pavement, where…
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