Country: | Bulgaria |
Native Name: | Алтернатива за българско възраждане |
Abbreviation: | ABV |
Leader: | Rumen Petkov |
Founder: | Georgi Parvanov |
Headquarters: | Sofia, Bulgaria |
Ideology: | Social democracy[1] Social conservatism |
Position: | Centre-left[2] |
Split: | Bulgarian Socialist Party |
National: | BSP for Bulgaria (2021) Bulgarian Rise (2022–2023) The Left! (2023–) |
Colours: | Purple |
Seats1 Title: | National Assembly |
Seats2 Title: | European Parliament |
The Alternative for Bulgarian Revival (Bulgarian: Алтернатива за българско възраждане|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]
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]
No. | width=180 | Name (birth–death) | Portrait | Term of office | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Georgi Parvanov (born 1957) | 25 January 2014 | 15 January 2017 | ||
2 | Konstantin Prodanov (born 1977) | 15 January 2017 | 19 May 2018 | ||
3 | Rumen Petkov (born 1961) | 19 May 2018 | Incumbent | ||
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Government | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | 136,223 | 4.15 (#8) | New | |||
2017 | 54,412 | 1.55 (#10) | 11 | |||
Apr 2021 | 14,794 | 0.45 (#14) | 0 | |||
Jul 2021 | 365,695 | 13.22 (#3) | 0 | |||
Nov 2021 | 267,817 | 10.07 (#4) | 1 | |||
115,872 | 4.47 (#7) | 0 | ||||
56,481 | 2.14 (#8) | 1 |
Election | No. of seats won | No. of total votes | % of popular vote | Ranked | Name | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2014[9] | 90,061 | 4.02% | 6th | An Alternative for Bulgarian Revival | ||
2019[10] | 16,759 | 0.86% | 13th | Coalition for Bulgaria |