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Nationalist leader Volen Siderov. Photo by dariknews.bg
Volen Siderov, the controversial leader of the Bulgarian far-right Ataka (Attack) party, failed for the fourth consecutive time to become the head of the Anti-Corruption Committee in the country's Parliament.
Only 9 Ataka MPs voted in favor of Siderov's proposal to head the committee, while 65 were against and 55 abstained on Wednesday, the Dnevnik dalily reports.
On June 8, the Bulgarian lawmakers unanimously voted against Siderov becoming the Committee's head over the incident in front of a downtown Sofia mosque where Ataka members and followers entered in a bloody altercation with praying Muslims.
Two other votes followed on Siderov's potential appointment, both to no avail. After the second negative vote last week, the Ataka MPs decided to halt all their membership in all Parliamentary Committees until the issue is resolved.
The Parliamentary Anti-Corruption Committee is headed by Valentin Nikolov, one of the three MPs who left the Ataka formation after the Mosque accident. Nikolov is now reckoned as an independent member of Parliament - and Ataka is trying to get its leader to replace him.
Last week, Siderov saw an alleged interference of US Ambassador in Sofia, James Warlick, in his rejection by the Parliament.
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