Bulgarian Social Democratic Party
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The Bulgarian Social Democratic Party (Bulgarian: Българска социалдемократическа партия, Balgarska Sotsialdemokraticheska Partiya, BSDP) is a social-democratic political party in Bulgaria.
History
The party was launched on 26 November 1989 under the name Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (United), seeing itself as the historical successor to the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party of 1894. In January 1990 it adopted the name Bulgarian Social Democratic Party and in February Petar Dertliev was elected chairman. Subsequently, the party joined the Union of Democratic Forces (SDS). After a rift in the relations the BSDP left the Union and founded the "SDS-Centre" along with the movement Ekoglasnost. The coalition received 3.2% of the vote in the legislative elections in 1991 and failed to enter the National Assembly. Until 1994 BSDP participated in the coalition "Democratic Alternative for the Republic", which also failed to overcome the 4% threshold in the elections in the 1994 election. Since 1995 a process of returning to the SDS began and so the party contested the next elections in 1994 within the United Democratic Forces.
Since autumn 1997 a part of the leadership seek a rapprochement with other social-democratic parties in Bulgaria. In March 1998 the Movement for Social Humanism separated from the party.[1] An extraordinary party congress at the end of 1998 caused another split. The left-wing, led by Dertlijev, pursued an alliance with the centre-left Coalition for Bulgaria and in 2002 it changed its name to Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats, while the right-wing continued to hold ties with the United Democratic Forces.[2] Thus, the party was later part of the Blue Coalition, an alliance led by the SDS, in the 2009 legislative election. More recently, in the 2021 legislative election the BSDP was part of the alliance Patriotic Coalition formed around Volya and the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria.
List of chairmen
- Atanas Moskov — 1989–1990
- Petar Dertliev — 1990–1998
- Peter Agov — 1998–2001
- Georgi Anastasov — 2001–unknown
- Aleksandra Hristova – 2016–today
References
External links
- Official website
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(240 seats)
- GERB—SDS
- 68; GERB
- SDS
- Movement for Rights and Freedoms (44)
- PP–DB
- Revival (38)
- BSP for Bulgaria
- 19; BSP
- Ecoglasnost
- PK "Trakiya"
- There Is Such a People (17)
- Velichie (13)
(17 seats)
- GERB—SDS
- 5; GERB
- SDS
- Movement for Rights and Freedoms (3)
- PP–DB
- Revival (3)
- BSP for Bulgaria
- 2; BSP
- There Is Such a People (1)
- Agrarian People's Union
- Agrarian Union "Aleksandar Stamboliyski"
- Alternative for Bulgarian Revival
- Attack
- Bulgaria for Citizens Movement
- Bulgarian Agrarian National Union
- Bulgarian Communist Party (modern)
- Bulgarian Left
- Bulgarian National Unification
- Bulgarian National Union – New Democracy
- Bulgarian New Democracy
- Bulgarian Progressive Line
- Bulgarian Rise
- Bulgarian Social Democracy – EuroLeft
- Bulgarian Summer
- Civil Union "Roma"
- Communist Party of Bulgaria
- Conservative Bulgaria
- Conservative Union of the Right
- Ecoglasnost
- Green Movement
- Green Party of Bulgaria
- Lider
- Movement 21
- Movement for an Equal Public Model
- National Democratic Party
- National Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland
- National Movement for Stability and Progress
- Party of the Bulgarian Communists
- People's Voice
- Political Movement "Social Democrats"
- Radical Democratic Party
- Reload Bulgaria
- Republicans for Bulgaria
- Russophiles for the Revival of the Fatherland
- Stand Up.BG
- The Left!
- The Other Bulgaria
- Union of Communists in Bulgaria
- Union of Free Democrats
- Union of the Patriotic Forces "Defense"
- VMRO – Bulgarian National Movement
- Alternative Social-Liberal Party
- Bulgarian Business Bloc
- Bulgarian Communist Party
- Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists
- Bulgarian Euro-Left
- National Socialist Bulgarian Workers Party
- Bulgarian People's Union
- Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists)
- Bulgarian United Communist Party
- Communist Workers' Party of Bulgaria
- Conservative Party
- Constitutional Bloc
- Democratic Alliance
- George Ganchev's Bloc
- Liberal Party
- Liberal Party (Radoslavists)
- Movement for Social Humanism
- National Ideal for Unity
- National Liberal Party
- National Social Movement
- Nationalist Party of Bulgaria
- Order, Law and Justice
- Patriotic Front
- Patriotic Party of Labour
- People for Real, Open and United Democracy
- People's Alliance
- People's Liberal Party
- People's Party
- Progressive Liberal Party
- Reformist Bloc
- Social Democratic Union 'Proletarian'
- United Labour Social Democratic Party
- United Patriots
- United People's Progressive Party
- Young Liberals Party
- Zveno
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