Bulgarian Socialist Party

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Bulgarian Socialist Party
Българска социалистическа партия
Bălgarska Socialističeska Partija
Bulgarian Socialist Party logo.svg
Party leader Kornelia Ninova
founding 1891
Headquarters Sofia
Alignment Social democracy
Colours) red
Parliament seats
80/240
( Narodno Sabranie , 2017 )
International connections SI
MEPs
5/17
European party SPE
EP Group S&D
Website www.bsp.bg
Cyrillic ( Bulgarian )
Българска социалистическа партия
Transl. : Bălgarska Socialističeska Partija
Transcr. : Balgarska Sozialistitscheska Partija

The Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP for short ) is a political party in Bulgaria . It is the successor party to the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP).

history

The Bulgarian Socialist Party was founded in 1891 as the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party . From 1919 to 1924 and from 1948 to April 1, 1990 it was called the Bulgarian Communist Party . From 1954 to November 10, 1989, Todor Zhivkov was its chairman and thus one of the longest-serving party and state leaders in Eastern Europe.

The demand for political reforms that flooded Eastern Europe in 1989 forced Zhivkov to resign and the party moved in a reformist direction, abandoning Marxism-Leninism in 1990 and renaming itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party . However, the party has not distanced itself from its communist past and the crimes associated with it to date.

Government of Schan Widenow (1995–1997)

From 1996 to 1997, the socialist government under Shan Widenow , which served the interests of the former nomenklatura, caused one of the worst economic crises in Bulgaria. In the spring of 1996 there was a severe economic crisis due to the high national debt . Banks collapsed practically overnight, and the state got into financial difficulties with its foreign lenders. A hyperinflation and mass protests and blockades of the country in the spring of 1997 were the result.

In the hope of support from the World Bank and IMF , the socialist government adopted a structural program. 134 state-owned companies were to be closed, and attempts were made to attract investors - especially foreign ones - through tax breaks.

In the 2001 parliamentary elections she was part of the coalition for Bulgaria , which got 48 out of 240 seats. The Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov , who was in office from 2002 to 2012, was a member and chairman of the party. The party is the successor to the Bulgarian Communist Party and was founded in 1990 after the collapse of state socialism . The BSP is a member of the Socialist International .

Participation in government under Sergei Stanischew (2005–2009)

In the elections on June 25, 2005 , the BSP was the clear winner with 32% of the votes. Sergei Stanischew replaced Simeon Sakskoburggotski as prime minister with a three-party coalition consisting of the BSP, NDSW and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) .

The three-party coalition led by the socialists under Sergei Stanishev was accused of failure in EU policy, corruption, inadequate fight against the mafia and the lack of adequate youth policy after a money freeze from Brussels. It is the Bulgarian government that enjoyed the least popular trust. At the beginning of 2009, only 15% of Bulgarians trusted her, while 76% were against her.

In 2009 the Bulgarian Socialist Party lost the parliamentary elections . It got almost 200,000 fewer votes when the Widenow government was voted out of office in the 1997 parliamentary election. According to two former Stanishev ministers, Rumen Ovcharov and Vessela Letschewa , the lost election is due to the socialists' too close proximity to the DPS party, which has been widely accused of corruption.

In November 2010, the then incumbent president and former party leader of the BSP, Georgi Parvanov, announced the prospect of founding his own party, which threatened to split off another part of the party members. These plans were not pursued after the end of his term in office.

Participation in government under Plamen Orescharski (2013-2014)

In the election campaign for the early parliamentary elections in 2013 , Stanishev launched an expert government under Plamen Oresharsky . Although the GERB party won the election, it missed a majority in parliament and gave back the government mandate. The BSP was thus given the mandate as the second largest faction in parliament and, with the support of the xenophobic Ataka party and the party of the Turkish minority Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), was able to provide the Oresharski government . As early as the second week of his term in office there were nationwide protests over the filling of important state posts by political figures from the DPS and BSP parties from the Stanishev government and the breaking of election promises. When the law for the Bulgarian secret service DANS appointing the controversial media mogul and banker's son Deljan Peewski was "cut to size" and Peewski was appointed head of the secret service by parliament in an urgent vote, even before a threatened legal veto by Bulgarian President Rossen Plevnelev , Oresharsky lost Support in the population and the confidence of Plewneliev.

After 2014

The BSP initiated a successful campaign against the ratification of the Istanbul Convention (Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence).

List of party leaders after 1990

literature

  • Wolfgang Ismayr (Ed.): The political systems of Eastern Europe. 2nd updated and revised edition, unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8100-4053-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sueddeutsche.de ( Memento from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), January 29, 2009
  2. ↑ www.mediapool.bg , January 27, 2009
  3. ↑ БСП получава с около 200 хиляди гласа по-малко дори в сравнение с изборите през 1997 година след катастрофалното управление на правителството, оглавявано от Жан Виденов. [1] on www.mediapool.bg, July 5, 2009
  4. ↑ Die Roten: We lost because of Dogan (Bulgarian) on www.mediapool.bg, July 5th, 2009; Станишев ... предал управлението на ДПС. Много хора се оттеглиха от БСП заради това on www.mediapool.bg, April 30, 2010
  5. ^ President founds “Bürgerbewegung” , www.diepresse.com, as seen on November 19, 2010
  6. ↑ Alexandre Lévy: La fièvre monte dans la capitale bulgare in Le Figaro , June 27, 2013; Quote: Et cela au prix d'une alliance inédite avec le Parti socialiste (PS, ex-communiste) et le Mouvement pour les droits et les libertés (MDL) de la minorité musulmane du pays
  7. ^ Bulgaria: New mass protests against government in Sofia ( memento from June 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 20, 2013; Tim Gerrit Koehler: Protests in Bulgaria against the head of government. Loss of confidence at record speed ( memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de, June 21, 20130; Marcus Bernath: Government in Sofia will not get rid of demonstrators , derstandart.at, June 21, 20130
  8. ↑ Reinhard Veser : Not only the EPP has to struggle with problem cases. In: www.faz.net. March 20, 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .