site.btaBulgarian Voice in Romanian Parliament Gheorghe Nacov Re-elected to Chamber of Deputies

Gheorghe Nacov, who represented the Bulgarian minority in the previous Romanian Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of the country’s parliament), won a new four-year term during Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Nacov reported the news in a video message in his official Facebook profile.

He says in the video: “I have earned the necessary minimum of votes to receive a new term as an MP. This is a result which our community needed very much, because it enables us to get support from the state for the Bulgarian minorities. This is owing to our having an MP and to our organization’s membership of the Council of National Minorities.”

He thanks the ethnic Bulgarians and everyone else who has placed their trust in him. “I feel obliged by every vote cast for me to make my new term better than the previous one. I will defend the same values as before. I am a Catholic and I will protect Christian values. As a convinced Euro-Atlanticist, I will defend the Euro-Atlantic course of the nation. Romania is the best home for any national minority, so we thank you, dear Romanians, for the right to be represented in Parliament,” Nacov says.

Gheorghe Nacov, 52, has been an MP for the Bulgarian minority in Romania’s 330-seat Chamber of Deputies since 2020. For 12 years, he was mayor of Star Bisnov (Romanian: Dudestii Vechi), a village in Timis County, Western Romania predominantly inhabited by Banat Bulgarians. He has never been a member of any political party. Since 1990, he has been a member of the Bulgarian Union of Banat–Romania. Nacov has a degree in law from Sofia University. He is married, with two children.