National Movement for Stability and Progress

Национално движение за стабилност и възход Nacionalno dviženie za stabilnost i văzhod Nazionalno dwischenie sa stabilnost i waschod
Website	www.nsdv.bg

The National Movement for Stability and Progress ( Bulgarian Национално движение за стабилност и възход or transliteration: Nacionalno dviženie za stabilnost i văzhod , transcription: Nazionalno dwischenie sa stabilnost i waschod shortly NDSW , NDS or NDS II ) is a liberal party in Bulgaria . Until 2007 the party was known as the National Movement Simeon the Second ( Bulgarian Национално Движение Симеон Втори or transliteration: Nacionalno Dviženie Simeon Vtori , transcription: Nazionalno Dwischenie Simeon Wtori ). She was a member of the ALDE party until 2017 and the ALDE parliamentary group until 2014 .

It was founded in 2001 by the former Bulgarian monarch Simeon Sakskoburggotski , who had been in exile in Spain until then , and won half of the seats in the 2001 parliamentary elections (120 out of 240 seats in parliament). During her reign she formed a coalition with the Turkish minority party DPS . The government was shaped by the rapprochement between Bulgaria and the EU and NATO as well as Russia and an economically liberal policy. Former EU Commissioner Meglena Kunewa belongs to the party . One of the founding members was the singer Nora Nova .

In the parliamentary elections on June 25, 2005, it lost the majority, but remained the strongest force in parliament. However, she gave up the government mandate under pressure from the DPS, but remained involved in the government under the mandate of the ex-communists ( Bulgarian Socialist Party , or BSP for short) in a three-party coalition with the DPS. In 2007 several MPs were expelled from the party. Together with other MPs who left the party voluntarily, they first founded the parliamentary group BND (Българска нова демокрация / Balgarska Nowa Demokrazija = Bulgarian New Democracy) and in May 2008 a party of the same name.

In the parliamentary elections on July 5, 2009, the party failed because of the threshold of 4 percent. Since then, it has not had any members in the Bulgarian parliament. Sakskoburggotski then resigned as party chairman.

In 2013 the party did not run for parliamentary elections. In the 2014 European elections , she joined the coalition of United Democrats, together with the Bulgarian Social Democrats and United Bulgaria . The coalition came to 0.92%. In the early parliamentary elections in 2014 , the NDSW received 0.24% of the vote.

In January 2017, the former NDSW parliamentary chairman Ognjan Gerdschikow was appointed interim prime minister. His term of office ends with the new parliamentary election on March 26, 2017 .

Web links

• Party website (Bulgarian and English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Ismayr : The political systems of Eastern Europe, Leske + Budrich, Opladen, 2002
2. ↑ Results on the website of the Central Election Commission ( memento of the original from July 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Bulgarian) 
3. ↑ Press release of the party of July 6, 2009 (Bulgarian)
4. ^ Interim premier in Bulgaria: new elections on March 26th. In: derStandard.at. January 24, 2017, accessed December 5, 2017 .