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The return as a candidate of US-sanctioned Magnitsky businessman Delyan Peevski and the change of leaders in regions with poor election results on July 11th are the main changes in the MRF’s lists for the November 14th parliamentary elections.
Former MRF MP Delyan Peevski, for whom the international journalistic investigation Pandora files showed that he participated in three undeclared offshore companies, did not participate in the elections on April 4 and July 11, but will now be the leader of the list in Blagoevgrad, where he was an MP from 2017 to 2021, and surprisingly in Veliko Tarnovo, where the MRF lost its mandate on July 11.
After Delyan Peevski in Blagoevgrad and in Veliko Tarnovo are the two deputy chairmen of the MRF – respectively Halil Letifov and Yordan Tsonev. Third in Blagoevgrad is the current MP from the region Elhan Kalkov, and in Tarnovo – Maston Mastanov from the party’s youth union, who as a leader was a member of the 45th parliament, but lost his seat in the 46th.
Yordan Tsonev is again first in the MRF list in the former region of Delyan Peevski – Pazardzhik, and Halil Letifov is expected to be the leader in Stara Zagora again.
Leader Mustafa Karadayi is again leading the list in Shumen, where longtime MP Hamid Hamid is second. Karaday is expected to be the first again in Kardzhali, as is the tradition in the MRF, but the list for the region has not yet been published by the election commission.
There is a new leader on the list in Pleven, where Velislava Krasteva, the party’s longtime publicist, led until now, but the movement lost its mandate in the region on July 11th. Now the first in the list is the regional chairman of the MRF Mario Rangelov.
Apart from Plovdiv, a city in this election, former MP Taner Ali will lead the MRF list in Sliven, where Hatice Georgieva was the first. Georgieva won a seat on April 4th, but lost it on July 11th. In the Plovdiv region, the leader is again the current MP Ramadan Atalay.
Stanislav Anastasov (Lovech), Erdjan Ebatin (Varna), Tsvetan Enchev (Vratsa and Sofia region), Hasan Ademov (Dobrich), Petar Chobanov (Yambol), Ceyhan Ibryamov (Targovishte), Ahmed Ahmedov (Razgrad) keep the leading places in the lists. , Hairi Sadakov (Smolyan), Sezgin Mehmed (Haskovo) and Alexander Nestorov (Pernik).
In 23 MIR in Sofia again leads the former mayor of the village of Vladaya Tanya Ivanova, in 24 – Dr. Stoyan Stoyanov, and in 25 – the lawyer Raina Ivanova. So far, the MRF has not won a seat in the capital.
A day before the deadline, the relevant election commissions have not announced the registered lists of the MRF in several districts, but no changes of leaders are expected.
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