Delyan Peevski, who was sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act, headed the sixteen-member list of candidates for MPs of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms in Veliko Tarnovo multi-member constituency. Recently, Peevski was named in the "Pandora Papers" and affiliated to three offshore companies.
Delyan Peevski was nominated by the regional structure of the MRF, the party’s regional Chairman Gunay Daloolu announced during the registration of the list at the Regional Election Commission.
"Mr. Peevski is giving a clear sign that he is returning to politics. He has a lot to give to Bulgaria", Gunay Daloolu said.
Later today, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms is expected to announce its nominees for President and Vice President of Bulgaria.
After 17 MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF, were expelled, among them the party’s other co-chair Dzevdet Chakarov, MRF MP Ahmed Vranchev expressed, in written form, a desire to leave the Movement’s parliamentary group. DPS..
Several European liberal parties have sent a letter to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) to demand that Delyan Peevski be monitored, pointing out that he has been sanctioned for corruption by the US under the Global Magnitsky..
Greece’s Minister of Defence Nikos Dendias announced that Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are to establish a military mobility corridor in NATO’s Eastern flank. “Today my Bulgarian and Romanian counterparts, Mr. Atanas Zaprianov and Mr. Angel..
The European Commission has approved state aid amounting to EUR 142 million (BGN 278 million) to support the energy sector, BNR’s correspondent in..
Saturday will be sunny and hot. Clouds will form in the afternoon, and there may be brief showers in isolated places in the Eastern part of the..
“No towns or villages are at risk from the fires that have broken out around the country,” Chief Commissioner Alexander Dzhartov, Director of the..
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