Alternative for Bulgarian Revival
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Alternative for Bulgarian Revival Алтернатива за българско възраждане | |
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| Abbreviation | ABV |
| Leader | Rumen Petkov |
| Founder | Georgi Parvanov |
| Founded | 25 January 2014 |
| Split from | Bulgarian Socialist Party |
| Headquarters | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Ideology | Social democracy[1] Social conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-left[2] |
| National affiliation | BSP for Bulgaria (2021) Bulgarian Rise (2022–2023) The Left! (2023–2024) BSP – United Left (2024–) |
| Colours | Maroon |
| National Assembly | 0 / 240 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 17 |
| Website | |
| abv-alternativa.bg | |
The Alternative for Bulgarian Revival (Bulgarian: Алтернатива за българско възраждане, romanized: Alternativa za balgarsko vazrazhdane, АБВ, ABV) is a centre-left political party in Bulgaria.[2] 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 is pro-European,[4] and holds "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 (BSP).[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 (MEP).[7] In the 2014 Bulgarian parliamentary election, the party received 4.15% of the vote and 11 seats in the National Assembly.[8]
List of chairmen
| No. | 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 |
