Ataka

Ataka ( Атака in bg. = Attaque in france) - its complete name being National union Attacks ( НационаленсъюзАтака ) - is a nationalist political party Bulgarian.

History of the party

Ataka was created in April 2005 by the journalist Volen Nikolov Siderov. This coalition was consisted the National movement for the safety of the fatherland, the Parti patriotic national Bulgarian and the Union the patriotic forces and the soldiers reservists for defense.

With the legislative elections of the June 25th 2005, the nationalist coalition obtains 9% (21 deputies out of 240 following alliances, then 12 after a scission); with the presidential elections of the Sunday, October 22, 2006, Volen Nikolov Siderov is present at the second turn with 21,5% of the votes. With the second turn, national-populist Volen Siderov, confronted with the outgoing socialist president, Gueorgui Parvanov, is beaten by 75% of the voters.

In November 2006, Ataka sent a delegation to the Fête of the Blue-white-red, festival annual of the National front, for a coalition with the the European Parliament joining together other nationalist or populist formations in Europe.

Not being opposed to an adhesion with the European Union, the party is however openly xenophobe, anti-American, anti-semite, opposed to the war in Iraq, corruption, the minority communities (in particular Turkish and to gypsy) and to NATO. He proposes to found an official religion - orthodoxe Christianity - and to prohibit to the members ethnic minorities of beings elected at the Parliament.

The opponents with Ataka regard it as a party of fascistic tendency .

Program

The party is defined itself as a " patriotic organization and nationaliste" who says not " with the sale of Bulgaria the abroads, to the tziganisation of Bulgaria, the turquisation of Bulgarie".

Official program

Its program aims to:

To stop corruption;
To prohibit the ethnic parties and the emissions in the minority languages on television public;
To leave NATO (Bulgaria joined the Atlantic Organization in April 2004). To prohibit any foreign military base on the Bulgarian territory;
To revise the agreements with the European Union;
To reopen nuclear reactors 3 and 4 of the power station of Kozlodui (closed at the request of the EU)
To grant a preference to the Bulgarian contractors on their foreign competitors;
To re-examine the conditions under which privatizations were carried out;
To found a social capitalism;
To preserve and re-establish certain elements of the security system social which existed under the Communist regime;
To restore the capital punishment.

Polemic

In September 2006, Dimitar Stoyanov, appointed European Bulgarian (which sits as an observer) of Ataka, compares Livia Jaroka, Hungarian of origin gypsy and named deputy European “Better member of Parliament 2006”, with a Romanian prostitute, which will cause the protests of eurodéputés and the judgment by the Prime Minister and the president of the Bulgarian Parliament.

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