Dimitar Stoyanov (politician)
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Dimitar Kinov Stoyanov (Bulgarian: Димитър Кинов Стоянов) (born 17 May 1983) is a Bulgarian and EU politician. He was born in Sofia. His father is Kin Stoyanov, a son of the prominent writer and dissident Radoy Ralin, and his mother is journalist Kapka Georgieva.
While still a student of Law at Sofia University, Dimitar Stoyanov joined the Ataka left nationalist party headed by his mother's long-time friend (and husband since the end of 2006) Volen Siderov. Stoyanov was elected in 2005 as the youngest member of the Bulgarian national Parliament on the list of the Ataka coalition with several minor nationalist parties. In August 2005 Stoyanov became an Observer to the European Parliament (EP), and, since January 2007, a temporary Member of the EP from the Ataka quota. Stoyanov was elected member of the European Parliament from Bulgaria on May 20, 2007. He was a member of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) political group until the group ceased to exist on November 14, 2007. He is currently a non-attached MEP.
[edit] E-mail Scandal
Stoyanov was embroiled in a scandal as an EP Observer in September 2006 when he sent all MEPs an e-mail commenting on the nomination of Livia Jaroka (a Hungarian of Roma origin) as Parliamentarian of the Year 2006 in the field of Justice and Human Rights. In the e-mail, he disagreed with the nomination citing the following arguments: "In my country there're tens of thousands gypsy girls way more beautiful than this honorable one. In fact if you’re in the right place on the right time you even can buy one (around 12-13 years old) to be your loving wife. The best of them are very expensive – up to 5,000 euros a piece, wow!"; "Believe me, I've seen lots of gypsy women, but all that are at her age are much skinnier. Doesn’t she sharing the terrible suffering her people are bearing all around Europe, the poverty, the miserable conditions and the unemployment????"; "Thirdly, she already has received one award this year. But wait – for a youth leader? This honorable lady is almost 32 years old for the God sake!" ([1]). Those comments that were compared to Borat's by two Western newspapers were deplored by many MEPs and several Groups in the EP. The EP President asked the Bulgarian Parliament to revoke Mr. Stoyanov's Observer status, but it turned out that there was no legal mechanism for that.
