Tsoncho Tomov Ganev

Public record

Compiled from publications and official records as of 18.10.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.

Russia

• United Russia. In April 2025, during a Vazrazhdane visit to Moscow, as the party's deputy chairman he signed with Vladimir Yakushev, organisational secretary of United Russia, a cooperation agreement between the two parties. According to United Russia's statement as reported by RFE/RL, Yakushev told him: "We appreciate your personal efforts to correct the situation" (our translation) regarding Bulgaria's position. Vazrazhdane did not answer RFE/RL on what the agreement contains. — RFE/RL, 29.04.2025
• Sanctions. In June 2026 he told journalists: "In the hard times we live in and struggle for our financial survival, it is extremely important that the sanctions against Russia be lifted" (our translation), and urged the government to veto the whole package of sanctions affecting Bulgaria's economic interests, not only over the Russian patriarch. — BTA, 19.06.2026
• Arms. In October 2026, on new drone attacks on ships in the Black Sea, he said: "We are a participant in this, because we have been sending weapons since the first day of this military conflict" (our translation). In his view arms deliveries should stop immediately and Bulgaria should denounce the agreement with Ukraine signed by caretaker minister Andrey Gyurov. — BTA, 13.10.2026
• Lukoil. In a Vazrazhdane press release published by BTA, in the debate on the presidential veto of the law on a special commercial representative in Lukoil, he said: "We in Vazrazhdane have several times in recent years tabled a request for the state to buy the refinery, but the ruling parties refused" (our translation). — BTA (Vazrazhdane press release), 13.11.2025
• The Russian embassy. In June 2023 he acknowledged in his own post that Vazrazhdane had been invited to and attended the Russian embassy reception on the eve of Russia Day, but said it was "not a drama" because they had attended similar events at other embassies. RFE/RL notes that he did not comment on the reception taking place during Russia's ongoing invasion. — RFE/RL, 09.06.2023

Corruption and scandals

• Bozhankov. RFE/RL writes that on 4 June 2025, in the plenary hall, Ganev rushed at PP-DB MP Yavor Bozhankov and shoved him hard, which the outlet describes as a physical attack. Ganev wrote that he had been provoked; Bozhankov, the other party to the incident, said he would file a complaint with the prosecutor's office, and PP-DB said it would ask for Ganev's removal as deputy speaker. According to the outlet, the only sanction imposed by the speaker, Natalia Kiselova, was a reprimand. — RFE/RL, 09.06.2025
• The flat. Mediapool reports BIRD's data from the Property Register, according to which his son bought a flat in Sofia with a garage for BGN 197,442 when he was 17, and Ganev and his wife Aleksandra Ganeva hold the right of use. The article carries no reply from Ganev. — Mediapool, 30.06.2023