Bulgaria

ATTACK

*ATTACK* is a far-right nationalist political party in Bulgaria, founded in 2005 by Volen Siderov, who was at the time presenter of the homonymous TV show Attack on SKAT TV.

The leadership of the party asserts that their party is “neither left nor right, but Bulgarian”. The party is considered ultranationalist and racist, especially anti-Roma, as well as being anti-Muslim and anti-Turkish and anti-LGBTQ+. The party opposes Bulgarian membership in NATO and requires revision for what it calls the ‘double standards’ for the membership in the European Union, while members visit international Orthodox and anti-globalization congresses and the party is closely tied with the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

In the Bulgarian parliamentary elections of 2005, 2009, and 2013 *ATTACK* was consistently the fourth-strongest party. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party won no seats. They were a member of the former *Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty* European parliamentary group.

*ATTACK* was also a member of a paliamentary coalition by the name “United Patriots”, conjoined by *IMRO*, *National Front for a Salvation of Bulgaria* and were part of the ruling coalition with the center-right party *GERB* from 2017 till 2021. The *United Patriots* coalition are responsible for the massive far-right leaning of the society ever since.