Thousands of employees from the security sector have gathered in front of the parliament for what is claimed to be a national protest, kicked off by Bulgaria’s anthem in the rendition of a female prison guard. The protest is still going on, despite the fact that the government had earlier withdrawn all its proposals for cuts in the sector, envisaged within the 2016 draft budget. The police trade unions voiced to the public the cancelling of the protests, planned for the next week only, but with their readiness remaining in case the promises made are not kept. The protesting lot has booed Minister of Finances Vladislav Goranov. The traffic along the Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. downtown Sofia is blocked.