At its meeting today, the Regional Council made a unanimous decision to nominate Delyan Peevski as leader of the Blagoevgrad DPS list for the upcoming National Assembly elections, bTV reported.
The following nominations for members of the European Parliament were also made at the meeting:
- delyan peevski
- Jevdet Chakarov
- Ilkhan Kyuchuk
- Iskra Mihailova
- Elena Yoncheva
- Stanislav Anastasov
- Tanzer Yuseinov
- Taner Kabilov
Who is Elena Yoncheva?
Elena Yoncheva is a journalist, politician, deputy in the XLIV National Assembly, press secretary of the Presidency (2017). Since 2019, he has been an MEP from the BSP quota.
In 2017, Yoncheva was part of the initiative committee that nominated Rumen Radev as a presidential candidate. After becoming president, he appointed her as his media relations secretary. Soon after, she left and was elected as an MP in the XLIV National Assembly from the BSP group.
There, Yoncheva continues to appear as a journalist – making documentaries about the weaknesses of the government. She makes a film about the fence along Bulgaria’s southern border and demonstrates that it can easily be crossed, provoking the anger of Deputy Prime Minister Valery Simeonov, who is responsible for building the fence. He accuses Yoncheva of using half-truths and replacing facts. Simeonov claims that she took pictures of the fence, even at the time when it was not ready.
More: Elena Yoncheva lost a tax case
The Supreme Court of Cassation confirms that Borisov and GERB must pay 5,000 BGN to Yoncheva. The initial amount that the journalist wants is BGN 20,000, but the court reduces it.
At the beginning of 2019, the prosecutor’s office brought charges against her for money laundering related to the KTB affair. Elena Yoncheva responds to the accusations by saying that this is an attempt at intimidation, which is related to her revelations about abuses by those in power. Subsequently, in April 2021, KPCONPI filed a claim against her for the confiscation of BGN 158,000.
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Today it became clear that Elena Yoncheva finally lost the court case, which she leads against a revision act from August 2021. According to him, she hid from the National Revenue Agency tax revenues of 36,025 BGN principal plus 21,939 BGN interest (a total of 57,965 BGN). In addition, the Supreme Administrative Court sentenced her to pay nearly BGN 4,500 for the NRA’s costs before the Supreme Administrative Court and just over BGN 7,000 for the first instance.
