National Union Attack
Attack (Bulgarian: Атака, Ataka) is a far-right nationalist political party in Bulgaria.
Following the Bulgarian legislative election in 2005, the party entered the 240-seater parliament by winning 21 seats and 8.1% of the vote (296,848 votes) and became the fourth largest party. At the legislative election in 2009, it remained with 21 seats by winning 9.4% of the vote (395,707 votes) and the fourth largest party. Later 11 members from the parliamentary group left and became independents and its deputies decreased to 10.
At the 2006 presidential election, the party's leader Volen Siderov was second behind the then president Parvanov by winning 21.5% of the vote (597,175 votes) and in the subsequent runoff between the two Siderov failed to defeat the president, having received 24.0% of the vote (649,387 votes). At the 2011 presidential election, Siderov was fourth by winning 122,466 votes and 3.6% of the vote, thus not qualifying for the runoff.
At the 2007 European Parliament election, out of Bulgaria's 18 seats the party won 3 seats and 14.2% of the vote (275,237 votes). At the 2009 European Parliament election, it won 12.0% of the vote (308,052 votes) and its seats decreased to 2. The two MEPs, which entered with the votes for the party - Dimitar Stoyanov and Slavcho Binev, left the party and therefore it currently has not a single member in the European Parliament.
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