Selenite (party)

The Greens Зелените
Party leader	Vladislav Panev, Tsaritsa Georgieva
founding	2008
Place of foundation	Sofia
Headquarters	Sofia
Alignment	ecology
Colours)	green
Parliament seats	0
European party	European Green Party
Website	http://www.zelenite.bg/

The Greens ( Bulgarian Зелените , Selenite or Bulgarian Зелено движение , Seleno Dwischenie ) is a green - ecological party in Bulgaria .

history

2008 election campaign button

The party was founded on May 18, 2008 in Sofia by members of various non-governmental environmental and human rights organizations. In this way, the organizations wanted to use political pressure to increase the willingness of the Bulgarian government to enter into dialogue and to establish green ideas more firmly in Bulgaria. Selenite also criticized the co-ruling Green Party (Зелена партия).

In 2014 it received around 0.6% (19,990 votes) in the parliamentary elections .

Chairperson

Until May 2010: Denica Petrova, Andrej Kovačev and Petko Kovačev

Since May 2010: Georg Tuparev, Daniela Božinova, Andrej Kovačev

2011–2013: Georg Tuparev, Stojan Jotov, Borislav (Bobi) Sandov

European Parliament elections 2009

For the first time, the party took part in the European elections in Bulgaria in 2009 and received the support of the European Green Party . In Bulgaria it achieved 18,444 votes, a share of 0.72%.

Parliamentary elections 2009

The party was also able to raise the necessary participation fee of around 25,000 euros for the 2009 parliamentary elections and took part in the elections. It received 21,841 votes (0.52%). The party thus missed the election target of 1% that it had set itself.

Electoral Alliance " Democratic Bulgaria "

In 2018 the party concluded with the parties Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria and Yes, Bulgaria! an electoral alliance. The alliance won a seat in the 2019 European Parliament elections.

Web links

• German version of the official website
• "We are the political alternative of the thinking Bulgarians" Interview with press spokesman Boris Loukanov on derstandard.at on July 3, 2009
• The new young Greens in Bulgaria on euranet.eu
• How the established parties try to get rid of their competitors for the European elections . The article (2009) describes the bureaucratic obstacles that were put in the way of the Greens and other small parties in Bulgaria during the parliamentary and European election campaigns in 2009.
• Website of the Sofia-Sredec branch

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1. ↑ Press Release: European Greens Support European Election Campaigns of LMP in Hungary and Zelenite in Bulgaria (EGP News) ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.