site.btaYashar Asan Is Top-of-the-List Candidate of Alliance for Rights and Freedoms for Plovdiv City 16th Constituency

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Yashar Asan is the top-of-the-list candidate of Alliance for Rights and Freedoms for Plovdiv City’s 16th multi-member constituency in the snap parliamentary elections on April 19, according to a decision of the Constituency Election Commission published on its website.

He was born in 1966 in Plovdiv and has specialised secondary education. He took part in the construction of some of the most important sites in Bulgaria as part of the Construction Troops, the coalition press service said. He was a national boxing champion. He is currently a municipal councillor on Plovdiv Municipal Council.

Since 1990 he has run his own business and is connected with the construction of the cooperative market in the Stolipinovo neighbourhood of Plovdiv.

Yashar Asan has six grandchildren who regularly attend school. He was a candidate for mayor of the Eastern district in 2009 and 2023, and was also part of the list of candidates for the European Parliament in 2014 from Ahmed Dogan’s formation.