Angel Dzhambazki  Angel Chavdarov Dzhambazki (family name sometimes also transliterated as Djambazki) (Bulgarian: Ангел Чавдаров Джамбазки), (born 21 March 1979, in Sofia) is a Bulgarian politician and currently a member of the European Parliament. He is also the vice-chairman of the IMRO, having joined the nationalist party in 1997 and gradually progressed through its ranks. Dzhambazki is a graduate of Sofia University, where he specialized in legal studies. Dzhambazki was a member of the Sofia city council between 2007 and 2014 after first being elected on the ticket of GERB, though making use of the quota for citizens, and then securing a seat in October 2011 as a candidate of IMRO. In November 2013, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee notified Bulgaria's then-Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov in relation to comments made by Dzhambazki, other IMRO members and football fans during an anti-immigrant procession in Sofia. Dzhambazki has criticized the non-governmental organization for being what it described as an "instrument for the destruction of the nation". Three years later, Dzhambazki and his party filed a motion before Tsatsarov, which sought to have the activities of the Helsinki Committee banned in Bulgaria, alleging that they had been "pressuring" and "influencing" judges through the use of seminars, which they claim led to the granting of the parole request of Jock Palfreeman. The NGO rejected the allegations, dubbing them a "part of the IMRO's election campaign". In May 2014, Dzhambazki was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the Bulgaria Without Censorship - IMRO electoral coalition. In 2016 and 2017 Dzhambazki has been accused of racist, xenophobic and homophobic comments. He was reelected to the European Parliament on his party's own list in the 2019 European Parliament election. In September 2019, he announced his candidacy for Mayor of Sofia, Bulgaria's capital and largest city, during Bulgaria's 2019 local elections. He focused his campaign on dismantling ghettos inhabited primarily by Bulgaria's Romani minority, as well as banning the annual Sofia Pride gay parade as part of what he described as a 'law and order' campaign.