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Bulgaria’s MEP elections: Siderov comes out swinging

Sun, Jun 07 2009 20:43 CET

byPetar Kostadinov

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Bulgaria’s MEP elections: Siderov comes out swinging

Ataka leader Volen Siderov.

Photo: Nadezhda Chipeva

Volen Siderov, leader of Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist party Ataka, said that while it was too early to draw conclusions from the country’s 2009 European Parliament elections, it appeared that his party had improved its performance by 30 000 to 40 000 votes.
 
Siderov, speaking in the first hour after polls closed, lashed out at those he alleged were involved in vote-buying and said that Ataka had received reports of vote-buying from around the country.
 
These included the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the party led and supported in the main by Bulgarians of ethnic Turkish descent – and one of Siderov’s major bete-noires, as well as the right-wing formations LIDER and Yane Yanev’s Order Law and Justice party.
 
Siderov said that he saw no difference between LIDER, the party backed by tycoon Hristo Kovachki, and OLJ, describing them both as "parties of the mutri". Mutri is a Bulgarian term used for organised crime figures.
 
Yanev, Siderov alleged, had close ties to a senior figure in the national security agency and was backed by huge sums of money.
 
The Bulgarian Socialist Party was also involved in vote-buying, Siderov said.
 
 

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