The Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov, who is also the informal leader of the GERB party, issued an order Monday allowing the extreme rightist and nationalist Ataka party to stage unlimited protests against the governing three-way coalition before the building of the Presidency.

Borisov has signed the request by Ataka's leader Volen Siderov that his sympathizers should be allowed to protest "until the day the government resigned".

The Mayor did not allow the nationalists, however, to settle their protest camp of tents right before the Presidency's building around the fountains there, with the argument that this was a security zone.

About 30 Ataka adherents tried to stage a protest rally on that spot on Sunday but were made to move some 50 meters away from the Presidency by the police.

The nationalists are planning to set up a people's parliament before the Presidency where according to Siverov every Bulgarian would be able to speak their mind "about this corrupt and incompetent government".

The Ataka party decided to leave the Parliament last week in protest against the staying in power of the government, and asked the other rightist opposition parties to do the same. None of them, however, has followed suit.

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