Hristo Atanasov Hristov
Positions
Mayor of Shumen municipality since November 2023. Elected in the 2023 local elections in the runoff (05.11.2023), nominated by BSP for Bulgaria (71.38% according to the Central Election Commission).
Public record
Compiled from publications and official records as of 01.11.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.
Communist Party and State Security
- Service in the Ministry of Defence's security service. According to the Bulgarian Wikipedia, Hristo Hristov was a long-serving employee of the Ministry of Defence, in its service „Сигурност, военна полиция и военно контраразузнаване“ (our translation: Security, Military Police and Military Counterintelligence), 1987 – 2011. It states that he worked in the National Security Service and in the State Agency for National Security and rose from operative officer to sector head: he led an operative service in the Military Police in Shumen, then the Military Counterintelligence sector, and finally a sector in DANS Shumen. The newspaper Sega counts him among the regional governors with a background in the security structures among the 2022 caretaker cabinet's appointments: over the same period he had worked in the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of the Interior and DANS, which the paper calls „Голям шлем“ (our translation: a grand slam). — Wikipedia, Sega, 09.08.2022
Mayor since 2023: Central Election Commission results (18.10.2026).
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