Ataka (party)

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Ataka
Ataka Logo.jpg
Volen Siderov ATAKA.jpg
Party leader Wolen Siderow
founding April 17, 2005
Alignment Right-wing extremism
Colours) white, green, red
Parliament seats
7/240
( Narodno Sabranie , 2017 )
Website http://www.ataka.bg/en/ (English)
http://www.ataka.bg/ (Bulgarian)
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The Ataka party ( Bulgarian Партия Атака / Partija Ataka 'attack') is a nationalist , xenophobic and right-wing extremist party in Bulgaria . She publishes the newspaper "Ataka". Until 2009 the newspaper "Desant" was also close to the party. Since October 2011, the party has operated its own television channel, alfa .

history

The Ataka party was founded on April 17, 2005, u. a. in response to the growing political participation of the Turkish and Muslim minorities, especially the DPS party , in the country's political life. With this nationalist orientation, the party instrumentalized not only the ethnic dividing line, but also the socio-economic fault line between the winners and losers of the system change. The party's chairman has been the journalist Wolen Siderow since it was founded . The aim of the party is to unite the Bulgarian nationalists in the fight against EU and NATO integration.

In the Bulgarian parliamentary elections in 2005, the party took part as part of the Ataka coalition . She was able to win 296,848 votes and 8.93%, which corresponds to 21 seats in parliament. In the presidential elections in autumn 2006, Ataka candidate Siderov received a spectacular 27 percent of the vote.

In the 2007 European elections, the party received 14.2% and sent 3 members to the European Parliament ( Dimitar Stojanow , Dessislaw Tschukolow and Slavcho Binew ).

The group strength in the Bulgarian parliament was only 11 members in March 2009, as 10 of the elected representatives resigned from the group.

In the parliamentary elections in 2009 Ataka received 395,733 or 9.36% of the vote and with 21 members it was the fourth largest parliamentary group . The election winner was the GERB party under Boiko Borissow , who formed a minority government, with 39.72% . Second and third were the BSP- led coalition for Bulgaria and the DPS . Ataka thereupon declared the "unconditional support" of the Borisov government, because otherwise the old, corrupt status quo (Bulgaria was previously governed by a grand coalition of the parties BSP, DPS, NDSW ) would be restored.

At the beginning of November 2009, in addition to Valeri Simeonov, 9 of the 13 community members of the Ataka faction left the party because they were not satisfied with the party leadership's policies. In 2011, Simeonov and the former Ataka Municipal Councilors founded their own party, the National Front for the Rescue of Bulgaria .

On December 10, 2010, MP Kamen Petkov resigned from the parliamentary group because he did not agree with the Ataka's policy of unconditional support for the government of Boyko Borisov . He was not a member of the party, but led the party's list of candidates in the “25th constituency” in Sofia as an expert.

On May 20, 2011, violent clashes broke out between supporters of the Ataka and mosque visitors in front of the Banya Bashi Mosque in Sofia. Five people, including two party members, were arrested. Ataka MP Denitsa Gadschewa was treated in hospital with minor injuries . Leading politicians in the country and the human rights organization Helsinki Committee Bulgaria spoke of a "worrying escalation of xenophobia and religious hatred". The Helsinki Committee even called for the party to be banned. Siderov, on the other hand, no longer threatened to support the government after his arrest.

In the presidential and local elections in Bulgaria in 2011 , Ataka's presidential candidate Wolen Siderow won 3.64% of the vote and thus finished fourth. The party won 7.3% of the vote in the 2013 parliamentary elections and has the fourth largest parliamentary group in the 42nd Narodno Sabranie with 23 MPs. Ataka's legislative proposals were sometimes supported by the ruling parties BSP and DPS (such as the 20% fee for renewable energy producers), sometimes by the ruling party BSP and the opposition GERB (such as the extension of the moratorium on the sale of arable land to foreigners). The Ataka party was not represented in the Oresharsky government.

After the early parliamentary elections on October 5, 2014, the Ataka party is represented by 11 MPs in the 43rd Narodno Sabranie.

List of candidates for the 2009 European elections

Ataka rally, 2006
  1. Dimitar Kinov Stoyanov
  2. Slavcho Binev
  3. Dessislav Chukolov
  4. Petar Khelbarov
  5. Danscho Hajev
  6. Stanislav Stanilov
  7. Nikola Ratschew
  8. Rumen Watashki
  9. Todor Christew
  10. Georgi Petrov
  11. Slav Stoychev
  12. Galen Monew
  13. Ognjan Janakiev
  14. Katja Wuschewa
  15. Aleksandar Stankow
  16. Anita Stoyanova
  17. Tsvetan Kolew

Member of the 41st Narodno Sabranie

In 2012 only 10 MPs (out of a total of 21) remained in the parliamentary group of the Ataka party.

Member of the 42nd Narodno Sabranie

Criticism of the party

Political science describes the Ataka as an “ultra-nationalist”, “right-wing extremist”, “decidedly Turkish and Roma hostile” or “radical right-wing, xenophobic and populist party”.

The Ataka party is always with hate slogans against in the past, Turks and Roma noticed . On their official website, Ataka published a list of well-known Bulgarian Jews under the heading: The Jews are a plague-infested, dangerous race who would deserve to be uprooted from birth . Populist politics are being pursued with slogans such as give Bulgaria back to the Bulgarians or stop the gypsy terror .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Riedel: The political system of Bulgaria. In: Wolfgang Ismayr : The political systems of Eastern Europe. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-3-531-16201-0 , p. 57, p. 678: [...] The Ataka political party with a nationalist orientation [...] , P. 683ff
  2. ↑ Southeast Europe. Journal of Politics and History. Volume 53 (2005), issues 1–4, Südost-Institut München, ISSN  0722-480X , pp. 350 and 370; and Michael Minkenberg, Dagmar Sucker, Agnieszka Wenninger (eds.): Radical rights and xenophobia in Germany and Poland. National and European perspectives. Information Center Social Sciences, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-8206-0152-X , p. 61; and Michael Meznik: Extremism in Bulgaria. In: Eckhard Jesse, Tom Thieme (ed.): Extremism in the EU countries. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / Springer, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17065-7 , pp. 51–64, here: pp. 56ff.
  3. ^ Website of the TV channel alfa
  4. ↑ Sabine Riedel: The political system of Bulgaria. In: Wolfgang Ismayr : The political systems of Eastern Europe. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009 (3rd edition), ISBN 978-3-531-16201-0 , pp. 677-728, here p. 678.
  5. ^ New right-wing radical group in Bulgaria in Deutsche Welle of February 23, 2006.
  6. ↑ Final election results for the parliamentary elections 2005 (Bulgarian) ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the Central Election Commission  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.2005izbori.org
  7. ↑ Results ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.izbori2007.org
  8. ↑ Results on the website of the election commission ( memento of the original from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rezultati.cik2009.bg
  9. ↑ www.mediapool.bg: Волен Сидеров окончателно отцепен от телевизия "Скат". Retrieved November 10, 2009 (Bulgarian).
  10. ↑ www.burgasinfo.com: Valery Simeonov founded a new party. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 21, 2011 ; Retrieved August 29, 2011 (Bulgarian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burgasinfo.com
  11. ↑ Sofia: Right-wing extremists attack Muslims
  12. ^ Clashes in front of the mosque in Sofia (Bulgarian)
  13. ^ Bulgaria election: Resisting the radicals
  14. ^ Votes in the session on December 5, 2013 , The first vote during the parliamentary session on December 5, 2013 on paragraph 6, supported by 116 MPs from Ataka, BSP and DPS
  15. ^ Votes in the session on October 22, 2013 , The 20th vote during the parliamentary session on October 22, 2013
  16. ↑ Southeast Europe. Journal of Politics and History. Volume 53 (2005), issues 1–4, Südost-Institut Munich, ISSN  0722-480X , pp. 350 and 370.
  17. ↑ Michael Minkenberg, Dagmar Sucker, Agnieszka Wenninger (eds.): Radical rights and xenophobia in Germany and Poland. National and European perspectives. Information Center for Social Sciences, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-8206-0152-X , p. 61.
  18. ^ Right-wing extremists threaten journalists from a German publisher on Spiegel Online from March 17, 2007.
  19. ^ Anton Maegerle: Right at the edge in Eastern Europe. An overview of Eastern European right wing parties in the Federal Agency for Civic Education from June 3, 2009.