Residents of the Bulgarian mountain resort town of Bansko were staging Monday a new protest rally with demands to have permits to build a new ski lift and to expand the ski tracks. The initiative committee vows to "be on the barricades in order to remind those in power they are expecting a quick solution to the problem with the ski area" in the mountain near their town.

The demonstrators stress the winter holidays are over, but the problems persist, adding the lines for the ski lifts were unprecedented once again during the last weekend. They insist for the very first time their resort is the leader in the sad statistics of having the longest lines of people trying to use the ski lifts and threaten to move the protests to the capital Sofia, Novinite reports.