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Bulgarian Socialist Party
Българска социалистическа партия
AbbreviationBSP
ChairpersonAtanas Zafirov (Acting)
Parliamentary leaderBorislav Gutsanov[bg][1]
Founded3 April 1990(1990-04-03)
Preceded byBulgarian Communist Party
Headquarters20 Positano Street,Sofia
NewspaperDuma
Youth wingBulgarian Socialist Youth
Membership(2020)Decrease80,236
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left
National affiliationBSP for Bulgaria
European affiliationParty of European Socialists
European Parliament groupProgressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
International affiliation
ColorsRed
Slogan"Reasonable solutions"
(Разумните решения)
National Assembly
18 / 240
European Parliament
2 / 17
Municipalities
63 / 265
Party flag
Website
bsp.bg

TheBulgarian Socialist Party(Bulgarian:Българска социалистическа партия,romanized:Balgarska sotsialisticheska partiya,BSP), also known asThe Centenarian(Bulgarian:Столетницата,romanized:Stoletnitsata),[7]is acentre-left,[8]social democraticpolitical party in Bulgaria.[9]The BSP is a member of theSocialist International,Party of European Socialists,[10]andProgressive Alliance.[11]Although founded in 1990 in its modern form, it traces its political heritage back to the founding of theBRSDPin 1891.[12]It is also Bulgaria's largest party by membership numbers.[13]

History[edit]

The Centenarian moniker comes from the fact that the BSP is recognized as the successor of theBulgarian Social Democratic Party,which was founded on 2 August 1891 onBuzludzhapeak byDimitar Blagoev,designated in 1903 as theBulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists),and later as theBulgarian Communist Party.[12]After the political changes brought by theRevolutions of 1989,it abandonedMarxism–Leninismand refounded itself as the BSP in April 1990.[14]

The party formed a government after the1990 Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly electionbut was forced to resign after ageneral strikethat December. A non-partisan government led byDimitar Iliev Popovtook over until the1991 Bulgarian parliamentary electionlater in October. In the aftermath, the party was confined to opposition. As part of the Democratic Left coalition, a forerunner of theBSP for Bulgaria,it helped form a new government in 1995, headed by BSP leaderZhan Videnovas theprime minister of Bulgaria.Large-scale demonstrations in the cities and a general strike prevented the formation of a new socialist government after its term ended at the end of 1996. The country had entered into a spiral ofhyperinflation,the most serious economic and financial crisis in its recent history, after theshock therapyandprivatizationpolicies, also followed to various degrees by otherpost-Communistcountries.[15]

In the2001 Bulgarian presidential election,party chairmanGeorgi Parvanovwas elected thepresident of Bulgariaon the second round, defeating on the second ballot incumbent candidatePetar Stoyanovfrom theUnion of Democratic Forces(SDS). Parvanov resigned as party chairman and was succeeded bySergey Stanishev.It was a break of thetwo-party systembetween the BSP and the SDS.[15]

After two full terms out of power (1997–2001), the BSP-led Coalition for Bulgaria won the2005 Bulgarian parliamentary electionwith 31.0% of the vote but without a governing majority, and formed theStanishev Government,headed by the prime minister and BSP chairman Stanishev, with thecentristandsocial-liberalpartiesNational Movement Simeon IIand theMovement for Rights and Freedoms(DPS), respectively.[15]In the2006 Bulgarian presidential election,Parvanov was re-elected in a landslide, becoming the first Bulgarian president to do so in direct elections. In 2007, Bulgaria joined theEuropean Union.[15]The governing BSP-led coalition lost millions ofeurosof financial aid in the wake of allegations of widespreadpolitical corruption.The cabinet was also unable to react to the encroaching globalfinancial crisis of 2007–2008and its term ended with a budget deficit after several successive surplus years.[16]

In the2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election,the BSP was defeated by the newconservativepartyGERB,obtaining 37 out of 240 parliamentary seats (18%), and went into opposition. GERB assumed power through ananti-communistandanti-Turkishplatform, calling the previous BSP-led governmentcommunisteven though, as written inJacobinby sociologist Jana Tsoneva, that government "had introduced some of the most radicalneoliberalpolicies. "[15]In the2013 Bulgarian parliamentary election,the party took 26.6% of the votes, second behind GERB with 30.5%.Plamen Oresharski,the party's candidate for prime minister, and theOresharski Governmentwere elected with the parliament support of the BSP and the DPS. The appointment of the controversial media mogulDelyan Peevskias head of the state security agencyDANSsparked large-scale protests on 14 June.[17]Protests against the Oresharski cabinetcontinued until the government resigned in July 2014.[15]In the2017 Bulgarian parliamentary election,the BSP made big gains but not enough to govern, as GERB made smaller gains as well, and the party remained inoppositionto theThird Borisov Government,[15]which included the far rightUnited Patriots.[18]

The BSP supported the2020–2021 Bulgarian protestsand led the left-wing opposition for a failednon-confidence vote.[19]The protests ended when the prime ministerBoyko Borisovresigned, but results after theApril 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary electionproved to be fragmented.[20]After failed attempts from the BSP to form a government in the aftermath of an inconclusiveJuly 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary election,[21]the political crisis continued,[22]as no government without the participation of Borissov could be formed, despite an anti-GERB majority.[23]In addition,Korneliya Ninova,the party leader since 2016,[24]has faced internal struggle, as the party has not been in government since 2013; the BSP has hesitated, depending on public opinion, between backing and rejectingThere Is Such a People,thepopulistparty created ahead of the anti-government protests and with the most seats.[25]A thirdsnap election[26]for November 2021,[27]this time also at the presidential level (2021 Bulgarian general election),[28]ensued to solve the crisis.[29]Following the election, Ninova decided to step down again although she will remain the chairman of BSP until the next party congress which will be held in January.[30]

BSP agreed to be a part of thePetkov Government,together withPP,ITNandDB,receiving the ministries of social care, healthcare, agriculture and economy, with ChairwomanKorneliya Ninovaalso receiving the position of DeputyPrime Minister.[31]

During the January Congress, Ninova's resignation was rejected, meaning that Ninova continued on as Chairwoman of the BSP, until the end of her mandate in 2024.[32]

Ideology[edit]

Founded as the legal successor to theBulgarian Communist Party,[10]the BSP describes itself as ademocratic socialistparty, espousingsocialistpolicies and values, while supporting asocial market economy.[14]It has also been described as apopulist,[14]andsocial-democraticparty.[14]The party's policies have oscillated during its existence from a customary understanding of socialism during the Videnov era, to a moresocial-liberalworldview under Stanishev, to asocially conservativestrain of socialism under Ninova.[citation needed]

Like mostParty of European Socialists(PES) member parties, the BSP has apro-Europeanstance, although it has taken someEuroscepticpositions[18]and called for an end tosanctions against Russia.[33]Some news outlets, such asNovinite,[34]The Wall Street Journal,andThe Washington Post,have described its orientation assoft Russophilia.[15]

In recent times under the leadership ofKorneliya Ninovaand unlike the majority of PES parties, the BSP has been described as more conservative on social issues,[14]and likeEuropean Unionpolitics it is more divided, with some leaders, such as Ninova, opposingsame-sex marriage in Bulgaria.[35][36][nb 1]Many party leaders opposed theIstanbul Conventionbecause they were against educating children about sexuality if it also meantsame-sex relationships,and after a long debate decided to vote against it, despite internal division about it. Former BSP leader and then-PES headSergey Stanishevstrongly supported the Istanbul Convention.[38][nb 2]Under Ninova's leadership, BSP additionally shifted to a more nationalist position.[41][42]

Membership[edit]

The party is the largest in Bulgaria by number of members, having 105,000 members as of 2016, down from 130,000 in 2013,[43]150,000 in 2012, 210,000 in 2009, 250,000 in 1996, and around 1 million members during the late period of thePeople's Republic of Bulgaria.[13][44]In 2020, it had 80,236 members.[45]

List of chairmen[edit]

No. Name
(birth–death) 		Portrait Term of office
1 Aleksandar Lilov
(1933–2013) 		3 April 1990 12 December 1991
2 Zhan Videnov
(born 1959) 		N/A 12 December 1991 21 December 1996
3 Georgi Parvanov
(born 1957) 		21 December 1996 5 December 2001
4 Sergey Stanishev
(born 1966) 		5 December 2001 27 July 2014
5 Mihail Mikov
(born 1960) 		27 July 2014 8 May 2016
6 Korneliya Ninova
(born 1969) 		8 May 2016 2024
7 Atanas Zafirov
(acting)
(born 1971)		 2024

Videnov Era[edit]

During the chairmanship ofZhan Videnov,the party followed the customary line for socialist parties – it rejected the large-scale privatization efforts of the SDS and instead moved toward a "mass" or "social" privatization campaign, which was intended to allow working and middle-class individuals ( "the masses" ) to obtain stocks in various enterprises earmarked for privatization, as opposed to those shares only being sold to private investors on the stock market. The party under Videnov opposed what was perceived as the strong political and economic over-reliance on the United States, and instead sought to foster more friendly relations with the neighbouringPASOK-ruledGreeceandSPS-ruledFR Yugoslavia.[46]

Parvanov Era[edit]

Parvanov, who had also been on the Bulgarian-Greek Parliamentary Friendship Committee, and was laterelected as president of Bulgaria,chose to keep a degree of public distancing between party and state institutions and instead resigned his membership in the party following his elections. Though the Bulgarian constitution requires the President to resign any leadership positions within political parties, it does not require the officeholder to give up his party membership completely.[47]He instead hand-pickedSergey Stanishevas his successor for the position.[48]During his chairmanship, however, he opposed theNATO bombing of Yugoslavia.He stated that this was not a position againstNATO,but only against its military operation. He stated that he would support Bulgaria's entry into NATO, but insisted that such an accession should only happen after negotiations with Russia.[49]Though he was considered a member of the party's liberal wing,[50]Parvanov also reached out to its more left-wing members and restored the party membership ofTodor Zhivkov,who ruled the country for over 30 years during the socialist period and who was still very popular among socialists.[51]

After having successfully completed two presidential terms, he re-joined the socialist party and initially put himself forward for another mandate as chairman, but withdrew it before the party's congress in 2012.[52]Two years later, he was expelled from the party for "damaging its prestige", which he condemned as an authoritarian decision by the party's authorities.[53]He then became the first former chairman to found his own separate party - theAlternative for Bulgarian Revival.[54]

Stanishev Era[edit]

Sergey Stanishev was noted in his policy shift away from the traditional understanding of the left, and toward a more pro-Western,pro-Europeanandsocial-liberalworldview. Having formed what was dubbed a 'liberal' tripartite coalition, he signed the accords forBulgaria's entry into the European UnionandNATO,while also implementing economic reforms that were criticised as beingneoliberaland contrary to socialism,[55][56]such as theflat taxthat replacedprogressive taxationin the country.[57]Because of this, he became highly polarizing within the socialist party, generating harsh internal opposition and leading to the defection of the party's leftmost wing, the 'Marxist platform'. Having decisively lost in the2009 election,he was successful in managing to form agovernmentafter the2013 election,however his approach backfired, as it required the parliamentary support of the pro-TurkishMovement for Rights and Freedomsand nationalistAttack,both of which proved incredibly controversial. This led toprotests,culminating in the resignations of both Stanishev and the government. Following the end of his chairmanship, the party adopted what was popularly dubbed the "anti-Stanishev amendment", which effectively barred him from returning to this position in the future.[58]Stanishev then left Bulgarian politics and instead moved to the European level, where he was elected as the chairman for theParty of European Socialists.[59]

Mikov Era[edit]

Mihail Mikoventered into his chairmanship under a promise to "consolidate and modernise" the party, as well as "protect its socialist and social democratic ideals", adding that the party's foremost responsibility was "the rehabilitation of thesocial state".[60][61]However the unpopularity of thegovernmentled to a major decrease in support for the BSP, due to its association with the pro-TurkishMovement for Rights and Freedomsand nationalistAttack.In the2014 Bulgarian parliamentary electionthe party obtained its worst result on record by that point. Mikov accepted responsibility for the result and chose to go into opposition. He nevertheless ran for re-election as Chairman of the Socialist Party, but lost to Korneliya Ninova, thus becoming the first incumbent socialist chairman to lose his bid for re-election.[62]Ninova then became the first woman to be elected as the party's chairperson.[63]

Ninova Era[edit]

Ninova's initial approach to managing the party was to present for election independent popular candidates, who nevertheless shared much of the socialists' worldview, as the party's candidates. This was exemplified by her decision to backRumen Radev,previously the non-partisan head of theBulgarian Air Forcein the2016 Bulgarian presidential election.Radev, though nominally running as an independent candidate, was still nominated by the socialists and ran withIliana Iotova,a leading socialist, asVice president.This proved to be a recipe for success, as Radev convincingly defeated GERB candidateTsetska Tsachevain the election and was elected asPresident of Bulgaria.Ninova then managed moderate improvements in the party's electoral performance during the2019 European Parliament election in Bulgaria.Despite this, the socialists were not able to overtake GERB and Ninova handed in her resignation, only to withdraw it shortly before it was due to be voted. The party also improved its results in the2019 Bulgarian local elections,increasing its support across the board in the Bulgarian local scene and even winning some districts of the capitalSofia,a city known as a bastion of centre-right and right-wing politics. The socialists even nearly managed to win the position ofMayor of Sofia,with the party's candidateMaya Manolovanarrowly losing out to the incumbentYordanka Fandakova.

However and much more controversially, around this time Ninova began to shift the party's orientation towardtraditionalismandsocial conservatism,advocating againstsame-sex marriageand theIstanbul Convention,as well as taking a harsh stanceagainst perceived 'gender ideology'.[64][65]

These changes to the party's philosophy also proved very internally divisive, and many factions formed to oppose Ninova within her own party, further galvanized by the fact that Ninova had taken part in privatization deals during the 90s. This internal opposition also accused Ninova of acting in a very authoritarian manner in attempting to crush internal dissent, comparing her to SDS leaderIvan Kostov.[66]Because of this, the party suffered numerous defections. Several party branches disassociated themselves from the party, Maya Manolova refused to renew her membership and instead went on to form her own partyStand Up.BG,a significant portion of the party's parliamentary caucus left to form theBulgarian Progressive Line,[67]while a portion of the party's old-school membership left to form theLeft Union for a Clean and Holy Republic,a broad left-wing alliance led by former BSP Chairman Zhan Videnov.[68]Tatyana Doncheva'sMovement 21also refused to align itself with its former mother party, the BSP, and instead chose to join Stand Up.BG in creating theStand Up.BG! We are coming!alliance.[69]A faction of those within the internal opposition that still remained in the party formed the 'Socialism of the 21st centuryplatform', which stated that it would fight Ninova's 'usurpation' of the party and work to 'restore the public image of socialism as the path to a more just and secure society'.[70]According to this internal platform, the party under Ninova had become aleaderistpower brokerparty, separated from its 150-year history.[71]

Due to these and other reasons, the BSP obtained poor results during three consecutive snap parliamentary elections held in 2021, with the party obtaining its worst electoral result in its history. Due to this bad electoral performance, Ninova was asked, but refused to resign from her post.[72]However, many party organizations, including the BSP's own youth wing demanded that she resign, which she agreed to do the following day. However, Ninova later stated that her resignation was not yet valid and she would remain the party's chairperson until a congress approved it at an undefined later date.[73][74]Nevertheless, the BSP's national council gave Ninova its approval for her to negotiate the BSP's support for a government led byWe Continue the Change,the new pro-Radev party that had won theNovember election.[75]

In late November 2021, BSP agreed to enter thePetkov Government.

In August 2023, BSP leader Korneliya Ninova highlighted her party's role in amending Bulgaria's Protection Against Domestic Violence Act, asserting that the changes uphold the Constitution. The revised "intimate relationship" definition specifies male and female, extending protection to relationships lasting over 60 days. The amendment, adopted during an extraordinary parliamentary session, sparked debate on gender inclusivity and was met with criticisms regarding the timeline of protection.[76]

Following the parties poor performance in2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election,a number of figures within the party, including the leader of the youth wing, Gabriel Vulkov, called on Ninova to resign.[77]On the 11th of June, two days after the elections, Korneliya Ninova announced her intention to resign her position as Chairwoman of the party, clasifying the parties electoral results as "catastrophic".[78]Ninova announced that an acting chairperson from within the ranks of her deputies would be chosen in the following days by the parties National Council, who would be tasked with carrying out direct elections of the Chairperson in the autumn. She refused to confirm or deny if she would present her own candidacy in such an election.

The National Council was scheduled to convene to discuss the question of electing an Acting Chairperson, among other questions relating to internal party affairs, on the 15th of June.[79]Prior to the convention of the National Council, deputy-chairman of the party,Georgi Svilenskiclaimed there was a conspiracy within the party among the previous leadership in order to carry out a coup.[80]Additionally, Korneliya Ninova wrote a post in which she clarified that together with her resignation she had tendered the resignation of the entire Executive Commission of the party and called on the National Council to not engage in revanchism, confirming that she herself would not be present at the meeting of the National Council.[81]

Following the meeting of the National Council, it was announced that MPAtanas Zafirovwas elected as acting Chairman, with a majority of 104 votes.[82]The meeting of the National Council also chose to undo the appointment of Svilenski as head of the parliamentary group, instead choosing to appoint Borislav Gutsanov.[83]In his first official statement, Zafirov denied the fact that a coup had taken place and promised to carry out fair elections for leadership positions within the party.[84]He further confirmed that BSP would not support a government led by either GERB or DPS. The parties new leadership also made clear that it wished to reconcile with expelled members of BSP, as well as President Radev.[85]

One of the first contentious decisions undertaken by the new leadership, was the removal of Kaloyan Metodiev from the Parliamentary Group.[86]Metodiev, a former head of the SDS Youth Wing in the early 2000s, was seen as a close advisor to the parties former leader, Korneliya Ninova.[86]Therefore, the vote to remove him created a division within the parliamentary group between the old and new leadership.[87]

On the 29th of June, the parties control commission made a number of decisions which similarly seemed to attack the old leadership. For one, the Control Commission officially decided that Korneliya Ninova could not contest the upcoming Chairperson elections, as she had already served two terms in that capacity.[88]The Control Commission further repealed the removal of Ivan Takov as head of theSofia Cityorganisation of the party, thus officially restoring him to that position.[89]

Takov's reinstatement was opposed by the recently elected leader of the BSP-Sofia organisation, Diana Toneva, who noted that she had already been legally registered as the leader of the organisation and argued that the Conference of the cities organisation which had elected her was legitimate.[89]

Electoral history[edit]

National Assembly[edit]

Election Coalition Votes % Seats +/– Government
(Coalition totals) (Coalition totals)
1990 None 2,887,766 47.15 (1st)
211 / 400
 Majority
1991 Pre-Electoral Union 1,836,050 33.14 (2nd)
106 / 240
 Decrease105 Opposition
1994 Democratic Left 2,262,943 43.50 (1st)
125 / 240
 Increase19 Coalition
1997 Democratic Left 939,308 22.07 (2nd)
58 / 240
 Decrease67 Opposition
2001 Coalition for Bulgaria 783,372 17.15 (3rd)
48 / 240
 Decrease10 Opposition
2005 Coalition for Bulgaria 1,129,196 30.95 (1st)
82 / 240
 Increase34 Coalition
2009 Coalition for Bulgaria 748,114 17.70 (2nd)
40 / 240
 Decrease42 Opposition
2013 Coalition for Bulgaria 942,541 26.61 (2nd)
84 / 240
 Increase44 Coalition
2014 BSP – Left Bulgaria 505,527 15.40 (2nd)
39 / 240
 Decrease45 Opposition
2017 BSP for Bulgaria 955,490 27.20 (2nd)
80 / 240
 Increase41 Opposition
Apr 2021 BSP for Bulgaria 480,146 15.01 (3rd)
43 / 240
 Decrease37 Snap election
Jul 2021 BSP for Bulgaria 365,695 13.39 (3rd)
36 / 240
 Decrease7 Snap election
Nov 2021 BSP for Bulgaria 267,817 10.21 (4th)
26 / 240
 Decrease10 Coalition
2022 BSP for Bulgaria 232,958 9.30 (5th)
25 / 240
 Decrease1 Snap election
2023 BSP for Bulgaria 225,914 8.93 (5th)
23 / 240
 Decrease2 Opposition
2024 BSP for Bulgaria 151,560 6.85 (5th)
19 / 240
 Decrease4 TBA

European Parliament[edit]

European Parliament
Election Votes % Seats +/–
2007 414,786 21.41 (2nd)
5 / 18
2009 476,618 18.50 (2nd)
4 / 18
 Decrease1
2014 424,037 18.93 (2nd)
4 / 17
 Steady
2019 474,160 24.26 (2nd)
5 / 17
 Increase1
2024 141,178 7,01 (5th)
2 / 17
 Decrease3

President[edit]

Presidentialelections
Election Candidate First round Second round
Votes % Rank Votes % Result
1992 Velko Valkanov 1,549,970 30.44 2nd 2,443,434 47.15 Lost
1996 Ivan Marazov 1,158,204 27.01 2nd 1,687,242 40.27 Lost
2001 Georgi Parvanov 1,032,665 36.39 1st 2,043,443 54.13 Won
2006 Georgi Parvanov 1,780,119 64.05 1st 2,050,488 75.95 Won
2011 Ivaylo Kalfin 974,300 28.96 2nd 1,531,193 47.42 Lost
2016 Rumen Radev 973,754 25.44 1st 2,063,032 59.37 Won
2021 Rumen Radev 1,322,385 49.42 1st 1,539,650 66.72 Won

Symbols and logos[edit]

  • Old party logo
    Old party logo

Notes[edit]

  1. ^Other party leaders, such as Georgi Kadiev, the mayor of Sofia party candidate in 2009 and 2011, took part to the 2011LGBT pride.[37]
  2. ^Like most countries inCentral and Eastern Europe,post-CommunistBulgaria holds socially conservative attitudes when it comes to such matters as homosexuality;[39]however, through the lead of the BSP's predecessor party, it was one of the first European countries to legalize homosexuality in 1968. As of 2020, right-wing and far-right organizations remain the mostanti-LGBTgroups, andanti-LGBT rhetoricand discrimination increased during the2020–2021 Bulgarian protests,of which the BSP took part alongside other anti-government forces, against the incumbent right-wing government. The strong opposition among most Bulgarian political forces to the Istanbul Convention was also an issue of mistranslation.[38][40]

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