Editing Sliven (section)

== Politics ==
Mayors from [[Bulgarian Socialist Party]] have been in charge of Sliven Municipality in the period 1990–1991, 1999–2003 and 2011–2015. For his second term (2007–2011), Yordan Letchkov was nominated by [[GERB]]. Since 2015, Stefan Radev is the mayor of Sliven Municipality. In the local elections in [[2015 Bulgarian local elections|2011]] and [[2019 Bulgarian local elections|2019]], he was nominated by GERB (he won in 2019). Hristin Petkov was mayor of the SDS from 1991 to 1995.

In the 2011 local elections, the BSP candidate (and non-member of the party) General Kolyo Milev won in the second round with 52.94% of the votes counted against the GERB candidate (also non-member) Yordan Letchkov.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-01-03 |title=Избор на кмет и общински съвет :: Избори 2011 |url=http://results.cik.bg/tur2/mestni/2127.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103001158/http://results.cik.bg/tur2/mestni/2127.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-01-03 |access-date=2023-01-18 }}</ref>

Since 2015, the mayor of Sliven has been Stefan Radev, nominated by PP GERB (2015 and 2019), re-elected with 64.75% in the second round of local elections in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Резултати :: Местни избори 27 октомври 2019 |url=https://results.cik.bg/mi2019/tur2/rezultati/2020.html |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=results.cik.bg}}</ref> On 11 November 2019, he officially took office.