Mustafa Karadaya

Mustafa Sali Karadayi (, ) is a Turkish Bulgarian politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria since 2013. Throughout his tenure, he also served as the leader of his party, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), from 2016 to 2023.

Personal life Mustafa Karadayi is married and has two children.

He graduated from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Academic career From 1996 to 2001 he was a professor of Informatics at New Bulgarian University.

Political career He is the founder of the Academic Society of MFR in Sofia and a member of the MRF since May 1991. He founded the youth wing of MRF and chaired it from 1998 to 2003. From 2002 to 2010 he was deputy executive director of the Agency for Post-Privatization Control.

Secretary of the Central Election Commission.

Since 2010, Karadayi was the organizational secretary of the Central Operative Bureau (COB) MRF.

Karadayi was elected to the Bulgarian parliament in 2013.

Since 24 December 2015 he was one of three co-chairs of the interim MRF to IX National Conference of the party after Lyutvi Mestan was expelled.

Chairman of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms On 24 April 2016 he was unanimously elected chairman of the MRF by the IX National Conference of the party.

Karadayi announced his resignation as the chairman on 7 November 2023.