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Pension protesters 'storm' Parliament

Jul 04, 2007
Staff and wire reports

ENTRY DENIED: The accordion playing 'radicals' reportedly shouted at lawmakers but were kept out of the parliament itself by the building's crack security squad.
A group of mostly elderly protesters, riled by Parliament's decision to pay ex-MPs a special allowance far greater than national average pension, staged a demonstration in Vilnius' Independence Square on July 3 during which some of them reportedly attempted to storm the parliament building. Members of public organizations, trade unions and the newly formed Pensioner Party picketed in front of the Parliament carrying posters that read "NO to MP Privileges!," while inside the building, lawmakers ...

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