Wolen Siderow

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Wolen Siderow

Wolen Nikolow Siderow ( Bulgarian Волен Николов Сидеров , scientific transliteration Volen Siderov ; born April 19, 1956 in Jambol ) is chairman of the nationalist Bulgarian party Ataka and since 2005 a member of the Bulgarian parliament (see Narodno Sabranie ). He was best known for his racist and sometimes anti-Semitic remarks.

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Siderov studied photography in Sofia and worked as a photographer for the National Museum of Literature before the fall of communism (1989).

Journalistic activity

Even before the fall of communism, Siderov became a member of the Independent Society for the Protection of Human Rights . In mid-1990 he became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Demokratia . At the time, Demokratia was politically close to the Democratic Party of Bulgaria . Under Siderov, the newspaper became the official publication of the center-right party Union of Democratic Forces .

In 1992 Siderow was dismissed from Democracy and ended all relations with his political partners. He then became deputy editor-in-chief of Monitor , a newspaper that is politically nationalist and conservative .

In 2000, Siderov was awarded the Bulgarian Journalists' Association Prize. After he also had to leave Monitor , he became the host of Ataka , a talk show on the Bulgarian TV channel SKAT . There he primarily addressed a strong nationalist-racist discourse and thereby tried to direct public opinion to “problems” with ethnic minorities.

In 2002 Siderow was invited to an anti-globalization conference in Moscow, attended by the Swedish legal journalist Ahmed Rami and David Duke , among others . In the course of the conference, Siderov gave a lecture where he held “a clique of radical Jews financed by other Jewish capitalists from the USA and Western Europe” responsible for “the communist pogrom against Russia”.

From 2012 to 2014 the program Studio Ataka ( Bulgarian Студио Атака ) with Wolen Siderow was broadcast on Sundays on the TV channel Alfa , which has been replaced by the also Sunday program Nedelnik ( Sunday program ) with Siderow since September 2014 .

Political rise

In 2003 Siderov was a candidate for mayoral for the BZNS party in Sofia. He got 1,728 votes or 0.45 percent. This process received little public attention.

For the parliamentary elections in June 2005, Siderow founded the nationalist association Ataka , which he named after his now very popular talk show. Surprisingly, the party got 296,848 votes or 8.14 percent. This made Ataka the fourth largest party in parliament.

Siderov ran for president in 2006. In the first ballot he got 21 percent of the vote and qualified for the next round against the incumbent President Georgi Parvanov , who got 65 percent of the vote. Parvanov did not emerge as the winner of the first ballot because the turnout of less than 50 percent was too low for a legally binding result.

The other right-wing parties refused to recommend candidates for the second ballot. The Center Party, however, supported Parvanov. As a result, Siderow lost 25 percent of his votes in the second ballot and thus did not become president.

In December 2008, Siderov was confirmed as chairman of the Ataka party congress with an absolute majority of votes.

He was also a candidate for the Ataka party in Bulgaria’s presidential election , which took place on October 23, 2011.

After disputes in the family, Siderov's wife and her son Dimitar Stojanow founded their own “National Democratic Party” in the spring of 2012. Stoyanov had already been expelled from the Ataka party in 2011 for devaluing and blackening the party after he had called for Siderov to resign.

Political positions

Ever since Siderov became politically active, he has accused the renowned Bulgarian parties of cooperating with organized crime. He also believes that minorities and (illegal) immigrants are at great risk .

At the first session of the 41st parliamentary term, in which Ataka has 21 members, Wolen Siderow submitted the draft for a "resolution condemning the genocide of the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire in the period from 1396 to 1913". The newly elected Prime Minister Boyko Borisov supported the idea of ​​a day of genocide in an interview. The day of remembrance was approved three months earlier by the municipal assembly in Burgas , where GERB and Ataka enjoy a majority. The Bulgarian parliament voted on the resolution on March 9, 2011. It was rejected with only 39 votes in favor, 26 against and 50 abstentions.

In November 2010, Wolen Siderov admitted that the communist politician Todor Zhivkov , who was head of state until 1989, had done a lot for Bulgaria and that this should also be taken into account by dissidents (like himself). According to Siderov, much had been achieved in the areas of health care and education in his time and that should not have been undone, but should have been improved.

Wolen Siderow supports important energy projects such as Südstrom and the Belene nuclear power plant . According to Siderov, Turkey would deal with the expansion of nuclear energy, and he rhetorically asked whether Turkey would be dependent on energy for energy if Bulgaria missed the chance to build new nuclear power plants.

Visiting Russia

At the beginning of October 2012, Wolen Siderow and the other members of the Ataka party went to Moscow at their own expense after the chairman of the Bulgarian parliament Zezka Zacheva refused to finance the trip. In Moscow, Wolen Siderow gave Russian President Vladimir Putin his book Basics of Bulgarism ( Bulgarian Основи на българизма ) on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Speaking to the chairman of the Russian Duma, Sergei Naryshkin , Siderov said that Russophobia had recently increased in Bulgaria under pressure from the government. Wolen Siderow describes the party he heads as the only one striving to improve Russian-Bulgarian relations.

Scandals

Siderow is involved in several scandals. Among other things, it is about a car accident, which he portrayed as an attack on himself. The alleged perpetrator claimed that Siderov's colleague Pavel Chernev had manipulated his car. First, Chernev testified to Siderov's testimony. However, he later confirmed that Siderow had persuaded him to give false evidence. Then Chernev left Ataka and founded his own nationalist organization.

On February 23, 2007, Siderov and 50 members and supporters of Ataka broke into the premises of the 168 Chasa (168 hours) newspaper . 100 other people were waiting in front of the building to be called. The background to this attack was an article alleging that Ataka was involved in a donation affair. With this threatening gesture, Siderov and his deputy Pavel Shopov demanded that editor-in-chief Nikolai Penchev name the author of the article.

In an interview for 168 Chasa in May 2010, the Israeli ambassador described Gendrel Siderov as a person with anti-Semitic views because, as chairman of the parliamentary commission for the control of the State National Security Service (DANS), he provided information about the alleged relationships of the detained and accused of criminal activities Alexei Petrov (former employee of DANS) with people from the Israeli embassy in the field of prostitution . Siderov himself described the information he revealed as truthful and stated that it had been told by General Atanasov in the course of his questioning before the commission.

Lufthansa incident

On February 3, 2010 Wolen Siderow flew from Sofia to Frankfurt on a Lufthansa plane. During the flight, he was attracted by racist remarks and insults against the cabin crew, threw food and refused to sit down and buckle up. For this reason, the machine had to circle over Frankfurt for an hour. Shortly before landing, the flight captain informed the Frankfurt airport police about the problematic passenger. After the landing, Wolen Siderow's personal details were checked, during which the politician directed insults against one of the police officers. Since Siderow had a diplomatic passport, he was released. The Lufthansa crew and the offended policewoman then filed a complaint against Siderow. The Frankfurt public prosecutor has initiated an investigation.

Relationship with the United States

Accompanied by a photographer, Wolen Siderow surprised the US ambassador, James Warlick , who was dining in a Sofia restaurant on May 12, 2011 and who had previously refused to receive Siderow, and demanded that the US for its military bases, on presentation of appropriate documents in Bulgaria should pay a reasonable rent of US $ 2 billion to the Bulgarian state for a period of five years. In response, Warlick is said to have said: “I will destroy you.” ( Eng. “I will destroy you.”).

Works

Wolen Siderov is the author of several books, including The Boomerang of Evil ( Bulgarian Бумерангът на злото , 2002), The Power of Mammons ( Bulgarian Властта на мамона , 2004), Bulgarophobia ( Bulgarian Българофобобия ( Bulgarian Българофобобия ). In the foreword to the book The Boomerang of Evil , he calls Jürgen Graf “my colleague and a personal friend of mine”. In 2010 the fourth edition of The Boomerang of Evil was published .

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolen Siderow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Wolen Siderow  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The history of a photograph ( English , PDF; 52 kB) Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. 2006. Archived from the original on April 29, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2007.
  2. ↑ Globalization - the last attempt to colonize the Orthodox East - Siderov's lecture during the conference.
  3. ↑ Federal Government: Answer of the Federal Government - Drucksache 17/10532: Findings of the Federal Government about racist and antiziganist groups in Bulgaria and their contacts to the neo-Nazi scene in Germany. (PDF) Retrieved August 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Димитър Стоянов е изключен от "Атака" , Dimitar Stojanow was expelled from Ataka , Дневник
  5. ↑ Shorthand of the second plenary session on July 22, 2009 , where the submission of the draft in the first session on July 14, 2009 is noted.
  6. ↑ Boyko Borisov position ( Memento of 12 August 2009 at the Internet Archive ) in Sega described
  7. ↑ Session of the Bulgarian Parliament on March 9, 2011 (Bulgarian)
  8. ↑ a b Сидеров: Живков направи много неща за България , Siderow: Zhivkov has done a lot for Bulgaria
  9. ↑ Лидер болгарских националистов лично поздравил Путина с 60-летием , the chairman of the Bulgarian nationalists personally congratulated Purin on his birthday
  10. ↑ в-к 168 часа, 14-20 май 2010, година XXI, брой 20, стр.7
  11. ↑ a b Волен: Атанасов да каже за Израел и проститутките
  12. ^ Ex-presidential candidate in Bulgaria rioted . fr-online.de. February 5, 2010. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Сидеров, видимо пиян, е обидил расистки екипажа на 'Луфтханза'"
  14. ↑ "Джеймс Уорлик заплашил Волен Сидеров, че ще го унищожи"
  15. ↑ Бумерангът на злото, 2010 (четвърто издание), стр. 10, изд-во Бумеранг БГ
personal data
SURNAME Siderow, Wolen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Сидеров, Волен (Bulgarian); Siderov, Volen (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian politician of the Ataka
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Yambol