Bulgaria's nationalist Ataka (Attack) leader Volen Siderov (R), who is running for the country's highest seat, has placed the ban of ethnic Turkish Movements for Rights and Freedoms first in his agenda. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)
Bulgaria's nationalist Ataka (Attack) leader Volen Siderov, who is running for the country's highest seat, has placed the ban of ethnic Turkish Movements for Rights and Freedoms first in his agenda.
In a letter circulated to the media, Siderov vows that if elected, he would first pronounce MRF an anti-constitutional formation and then he would move on to overpowering the government. Siderov states he would change "this sell-out non-Bulgarian government with a Bulgarian, national and responsible one."
Siderov goes on promising he would grant Bulgarian citizenship to two million Bulgarians who currently leave abroad, and that he would ask Turkey for the USD 10 B that they owed Bulgaria since 1913.
Ethnic Turks in the country would receive further blows if Siderov gets elected, for he plans to take the news in Turkish off the air of the National TV.
Among the other points on Siderov's agenda are saving the units of Bulgaria's Nuclear Power Plant from closing, holding referendums on matters of national interest and "exposing all jobbery of previous governments."