Alternative for Bulgarian Revival

Alternative for Bulgarian Revival
Алтернатива за българско възраждане
Leader Rumen Petkov
Founded 2014
Split from Bulgarian Socialist Party
Headquarters Sofia, Bulgaria
Ideology Social democracy[1]
Political position Centre-left[2]
National Assembly
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European Parliament
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Website
www.abv-alternativa.bg

The Alternative for Bulgarian Revival (Bulgarian: Алтернатива за българско възраждане, АБВ; Alternativa za balgarsko vazrazhdane) is a centre-left[2] political party in Bulgaria. The party's initials 'АБВ' are the first three letters of the Cyrillic alphabet, equivalent to 'ABC'.[3]

History

The party was founded and is led by Georgi Parvanov, who was President of Bulgaria from 2002 to 2012, as a splinter from the Bulgarian Socialist Party.[4] In the May 2014 European elections, the party received 4% of the vote, failing to elect any MEPs.[5] In the October 2014 parliamentary election, the party received 4.15% of the vote and 11 seats in the National Assembly.[6]

List of chairmen

№ Name
(Birth–Death)		 Portrait Term of office
1 Georgi Parvanov
(1957–)		25 January 201415 January 2017
2 Konstantin Prodanov
(1977–)		15 January 201719 May 2018
3 Rumen Petkov
(1961-)		19 May 2018Incumbent

Statistics

European Parliament
Election # of seats won # of total votes % of popular vote rank
2014
0 / 17
 90,061 4.02% 6th
Bulgarian National Assembly
Election # of seats won # of total votes % of popular vote rank
2014
11 / 240
 136,223 4.15% 8th
2017
0 / 240
 54,409 1.55% 10th
Kalfin for President
Election # of total votes (1st round) % of popular vote (1st round) rank (1st round) # of total votes (2nd round) % of popular vote (2nd round) rank (2nd round)
2016 125,531 3.28% 7th - - -

References

  1. ↑ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "Bulgaria". Parties and Elections in Europe.
  2. 1 2 Krasimirov, Angel (27 July 2014). "Bulgaria's Socialists pick new leader as election looms". Reuters.
  3. ↑ Leviev-Sawyer, Clive (26 January 2014). "Purvanov project hits BSP, Borissov's GERB back in the lead – poll". The Sofia Globe.
  4. ↑ Carney, Sean (6 October 2014). "Bulgaria Vote Fails to Break Deadlock". The Wall Street Journal.
  5. ↑ "Резултати от избори за Европейски парламент 25.05.2014 г. за страната". Избори за Европейски Парламент 2014. CIK (Central electoral commission of Bulgaria).
  6. ↑ "Резултати за страната при обработени 100% протоколи на СИК в РИК". Избори за народни представители 2014. CIK (Central electoral commission of Bulgaria).
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