Attack (political party)

The party Ataka ( Bulgarian Партия Атака / Partija Ataka, attack ') is a nationalist, xenophobic and extreme right-wing party in Bulgaria. It publishes the newspaper " Ataka ". By 2009, the newspaper " Desant " the party was close. Since October 2011, the party runs its own television channel with alfa.

History

The Ataka party was on April 17, 2005, inter alia, in response to the growing participation of Turkish and Muslim minority, specifically the DPS party in the political life of the country, was founded. This nationalist orientation, the party orchestrated not only the ethnic dividing line, but also the socio-economic fault line between the winners and losers of the system change. Chairman of the party since its founding, the journalist Volen Siderov. The aim of the party is to unite the Bulgarian nationalists in the fight against EU and NATO integration.

At the Bulgarian parliamentary elections in 2005 the party participated as part of the coalition Ataka. They could 296 848 votes and 8.93% which corresponded to 21 deputies seats, winning for themselves.

In the European elections of 2007, the party won 14.2% and sent three deputies to the European Parliament ( Dimitar Stoyanov, Dessislaw Tschukolow and Slawtscho Binew ).

The Group of strength in the Bulgarian Parliament was in March 2009, only 11 members, as 10 of the elected officials leaked from the fraction.

In the 2009 parliamentary elections, Ataka received 395 733 or 9.36% of the vote and 21 deputies presented with the fourth strongest parliamentary faction. Election winner was 39.72 % Boyko Borisov with the party GERB, who compiled a minority government. Second and third were the reasons given by the BSP Coalition for Bulgaria and the DPS. Ataka then declared the " unconditional support " the Government of Borisov, because otherwise the old, corrupt status quo (Bulgaria was previously ruled by a grand coalition of the parties BSP, DPS, NMSS ) would be restored.

In early November 2009 included Valeri Simeonov from another 9 of the 13 members of the community Atakafraktion from the party because they were not happy with the policies of the party leadership. 2011 founded Simeonov and the former Ataka Gemeinderadabgeordneten their own party, the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria.

On 10 December 2010 the deputy Kamen Petkov from the parliamentary group stepped out because he did not agree with the policy of unconditional support for the government of Boyko Borisov, by the party Ataka. He was not a member of the party, however, resulted in as an expert to the list of candidates of the party in the " 25 -en constituency " in Sofia.

On 20 May 2011 it came before the Banya Bashi Mosque in Sofia violent clashes between supporters of Ataka mosque and visitors. Five people, including two members of the party were arrested here. The Ataka MPs Deniza Gadschewa was slightly injured treated in hospital. Leading politicians of the country and the human rights organization Helsinki Committee, Bulgaria spoke of a " disturbing escalation of xenophobia and religious hatred ". The Helsinki Committee even demanded a ban on the party. Siderov, however, threatened by the arrest, the government will no longer support.

In the presidential and local elections in Bulgaria in 2011 was the presidential candidate of Ataka, Volen Siderov, winning 3.64% of the vote and thus occupied the fourth place. The party won 7.3% of the vote in the 2013 parliamentary elections and has 23 MPs with the fourth largest group in the 42 Narodno Sabranie. Together with the Socialist Party shall ( ex-communists ) and the Party of Turkish-Islamic minority DPS and support Ataka Oresharski the government.

List of candidates for the 2009 European elections

Member of the 41 Narodno Sabranie

Volen Siderov
Dessislaw Tschukolow
Stanislaw Stanilow
Wenzislaw Lakow
Tsveta Georgieva (2011 resigned from the party Ataka )
Deniza Gadschewa
Pavel Shopov
Ljubomir Vladimirov
Nikolaj Pechliwanow
Ognjan Jana Kiev
Jawor Notew
Valentin Ivanov (2011 from the Ataka party resigned )
Ognjan Pejtschew (2011 resigned from the party Ataka )
Ognjan Tetimow (2011 resigned from the party Ataka )
Petar Chlebarow (2011 resigned from the party Ataka )
Kiril Gumnerow (2011 resigned from the party Ataka )
Kamen Petkov ( 2010 from the Ataka party resigned )
Dimitar Karbow (2011 resigned from the party Ataka )
Kalina Krumowa (2011 resigned from the party Ataka )
Stoyan Ivanov (2011 resigned from the party Ataka )
Borislav Stoyanov (2011 resigned from the party Ataka )

2012 were only 10 MPs (out of 21) in the parliamentary faction of the Party Ataka.

Member of the 42 Narodno Sabranie

Volen Siderov
Dessislaw Tschukolow
Stanislaw Stanilow
Wenzislaw Lakow
Magdalena Taschewa
Deniza Gadschewa
Pavel Shopov
Ljubomir Vladimirov
Dimitar Avramov
Jawor Notew
Adrian Assenov
Dimitar Dimov
Galen Monew
Ivan Dimitrov
Ilian Todorov
Kalina Balabanova
Kiril Kolev
Kristijan Dimitrov
Margarita Nikolova
Miglena Alexandrova
Nikolay Alexandrov
Petar Petrov
Radi Stoyanov

Criticism of the party

The Ataka is described by the political science as " ultra-nationalist ", " right-wing ", " turks and decidedly anti-Roma " or "radical right wing, xenophobic and populist party ".

Ataka is always noticed in the past with inflammatory slogans against Turks and Roma. On their official website Ataka published a list of known Bulgarian Jews under the heading: The Jews are a plague -infested, dangerous race that would deserve to be uprooted from birth. With slogans like Give Bulgaria to the Bulgarians back or stop the gypsy terror populist policy is operated.

Despite such accusations, there are cases in which Christian Roma contact the party from the Nadezhda district, as in 2007 the city of Sliven, where the mayor Jordan Letschkow has approved the construction of a mosque. The number of Muslim Roma in the quarter is about 100 out of 20,000. According to the deputies from the 39th Narodno Sabranie Mitko Dimitrov Christian Roma have asked to be sent to election commissions as a representative of Ataka. The party supported their opposition to the construction of the mosque.

Nationalism Alfa TV (Bulgaria) Dimitar Stoyanov (politician) Oresharski Government Yordan Letchkov Deutsche Welle Le Figaro Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats Lider (political party) Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria) The Greens (Bulgaria) Bulgarian Left Radical Democratic Party (Bulgaria)

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