Sources: Sofia Echo (Sofia) and Bulgaria public holidays (qppstudio.net). In a reversal of last week's Cabinet decision, Bulgaria's Labour and Social Policy Minister, Emilia Maslarova, announced that at today's Cabinet session, it was decided to declare May 4 and May 5, 2009, as official public holidays, thus creating a 6-day public holiday stretching from May Day to St George's Day on May 6.