Alternative for Bulgarian Revival
Алтернатива за българско възраждане
AbbreviationABV
LeaderRumen Petkov
FounderGeorgi Parvanov
Founded25 January 2014 (2014-01-25)
Split fromBulgarian Socialist Party
HeadquartersSofia, Bulgaria
IdeologySocial democracy[1]
Social conservatism
Political positionCentre-left[2]
National affiliationBSP for Bulgaria (2021)
Bulgarian Rise (2022–2023)
The Left! (2023–)
Colours  Purple
National Assembly
0 / 240
European Parliament
0 / 17
Website
abv-alternativa.bg

The Alternative for Bulgarian Revival (Bulgarian: Алтернатива за българско възраждане, romanized: Alternativa za balgarsko vazrazhdane, АБВ) is a centre-left[2] political party in Bulgaria. ABV, the romanized party's initials in Bulgarian, are the first three letters of the Cyrillic alphabet, equivalent to ABC.[3] A social-democratic party,[1] it holds pro-European[4] and "quasi-nationalist social conservative" views.[5]

History

The party was founded and is led by Georgi Parvanov, who was the president of Bulgaria from 2002 to 2012, as a splinter from the Bulgarian Socialist Party.[6] In the May 2014 European Parliament election in Bulgaria, the party received 4% of the vote, failing to elect any Member of the European Parliament.[7] In the 2014 Bulgarian parliamentary election, the party received 4.15% of the vote and 11 seats in the National Assembly.[8]

List of chairmen

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

Electoral history

National Assembly

Election Votes  % Seats +/– Government
2014 136,223 4.15 (#8)
11 / 240
 New Coalition
2017[lower-alpha 1] 54,412 1.55 (#10)
0 / 240
 Decrease 11 Extra-parliamentary
Apr 2021 14,794 0.45 (#14)
0 / 240
 Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary
Jul 2021[lower-alpha 2] 365,695 13.22 (#3)
0 / 240
 Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary
Nov 2021[lower-alpha 2] 267,817 10.07 (#4)
1 / 240
 Increase 1 Coalition
2022[lower-alpha 3] 115,872 4.47 (#7)
1 / 240
 Steady 0 Snap election
2023[lower-alpha 4] 56,481 2.14 (#8)
0 / 240
 Decrease 1 Extra-parliamentary
  1. ↑ Run in coalition with Movement 21.
  2. 1 2 Run as part of the BSP for Bulgaria coalition.
  3. ↑ Run as part of the Bulgarian Rise coalition.
  4. ↑ Run as part of The Left coalition.

President of Bulgaria

Election No. of total votes
(1st round)		  % of popular vote
(1st round)		 Ranked
(1st round)		 No. of total votes
(2nd round)		  % of popular vote
(2nd round)		 Ranked
(2nd round)
2016 125,531 3.28% 7th – – –

European Parliament

Election No. of seats won No. of total votes  % of popular vote Ranked Name
2014

[9]
0 / 17
[9]		 90,061[9] 4.02%[9] 6th[9] An Alternative for Bulgarian Revival
2019

[10]
0 / 17
[10]		 16,759[10] 0.86%[10] 13th[10] Coalition for Bulgaria


References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ "Bulgaria". Europe Elects. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  5. ↑ Popivanov, Boris (2014). Changing Images of the Left in Bulgaria. Columbia University Press. p. 160.
  6. ↑ Carney, Sean (6 October 2014). "Bulgaria Vote Fails to Break Deadlock". The Wall Street Journal.
  7. ↑ "Резултати от избори за Европейски парламент 25.05.2014 г. за страната". Избори за Европейски Парламент 2014. CIK (Central electoral commission of Bulgaria).
  8. ↑ "Резултати за страната при обработени 100% протоколи на СИК в РИК". Избори за народни представители 2014. CIK (Central electoral commission of Bulgaria).
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 "Резултати :: Избори за Европейски Парламент 2014". results.cik.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "Европейски парламент :: Европейски парламент 2019". results.cik.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2019-06-01.
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