Balgarski Semedelski Naroden Sajus - Naroden Sajus

The Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union - People's Union ( Bulgarian Български земеделски народен съюз - Народен съюз / Balgarski Semedelski Naroden Sajus-Naroden Sajus shortly BSNS) is a Christian Democrat - conservative -agrarische small party of Bulgaria .

The Peasants' Party was founded in 1899 and quickly rose to become an important factor in Bulgarian politics. In the 1920s (leading under Aleksandar Stambolijski ) and 1930s she was involved in various governments. After the Second World War, resistance against the communist regime , which persecuted and imprisoned party members, gathered in the BSNS . From 1997 to 2001 the BSNS was part of the ODS coalition in government.

Today the party is part of the Bulgarian People's Union , which, under the leadership of Free Democrat Stefan Sofijanski , won 5.7% of the vote and 13 of the 240 seats in the parliamentary elections on June 25, 2005; the BSNS had 5 seats. The current chairman of the party is Stefan Litchev. The BSNS is a member of the European People's Party and is represented in the European Parliament by Petja Stawrewa .

The BSNS ran as part of the Blue Coalition for the 2009 European elections and the Bulgarian national elections on July 5, 2009 .

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Individual evidence

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   Björn Opfer-Klinger: The unpopular EU south-east expansion. Bulgaria's and Romania's rocky road to Europe. Fiber, Osnabrück 2007, p. 21.
   Regine Schubert: Bulgaria. Bad performance by right-wing extremists. In: Europe voted. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, June 2014, p. 13.
   Wim van Meurs: Democracy or Socialism? Peasant parties in Southeastern Europe at the turn of the century as carriers of democratization. In: Archives for Social History , Volume 53, 2013, p. 96.