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 | 0 / 240
|
| European Parliament | 0 / 17
|
| Website | |
| www.abv-alternativa.bg | |
The Alternative for Bulgarian Revival (Template:Lang-bg, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background:Template:Alternative for Bulgarian Revival/meta/color; color:white;"| 1 | Georgi Parvanov (1957–) |
 |
25 January 2014 | 15 January 2017 |
| style="background:Template:Alternative for Bulgarian Revival/meta/color; color:white"| 2 | Konstantin Prodanov (1977–) |
15 January 2017 | 19 May 2018 | |
| style="background:Template:Alternative for Bulgarian Revival/meta/color; color:white"| 3 | Rumen Petkov (1961-) |
19 May 2018 | Incumbent | |
Statistics
| Election | # of seats won | # of total votes | % of popular vote | rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 0 / 17
|
90,061 | 4.02% | 6th |
| 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 |
| 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
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "Bulgaria". Parties and Elections in Europe.
- ^ a b Krasimirov, Angel (27 July 2014). "Bulgaria's Socialists pick new leader as election looms". Reuters.
- ^ Leviev-Sawyer, Clive (26 January 2014). "Purvanov project hits BSP, Borissov's GERB back in the lead – poll". The Sofia Globe.
- ^ Carney, Sean (6 October 2014). "Bulgaria Vote Fails to Break Deadlock". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Резултати от избори за Европейски парламент 25.05.2014 г. за страната". Избори за Европейски Парламент 2014. CIK (Central electoral commission of Bulgaria).
- ^ "Резултати за страната при обработени 100% протоколи на СИК в РИК". Избори за народни представители 2014. CIK (Central electoral commission of Bulgaria).
