Republicans for Bulgaria
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Republicans for Bulgaria Републиканци за България | |
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| Leader | Tsvetan Tsvetanov[1] |
| Founder | Tsvetan Tsvetanov |
| Founded | 27 October 2020[2] |
| Split from | GERB[2] |
| Headquarters | Sofia |
| Membership (2020) | 5,717[3] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right[4] |
| National affiliation | Free Voters (2024) |
| Colors | Deep Blue |
| National Assembly | 0 / 240 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 17 |
| Website | |
| republikanci | |
Republicans for Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Републиканци за България, romanized: Republikantsi za Balgariya) is a Bulgarian political party formed as a split from GERB by Tsvetan Tsvetanov, formerly the second most senior official in the ruling GERB party, after he was demoted from his positions by GERB leader and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.[1] The party's abbreviation (RB) is an allusion to the defunct rightist Reformist Bloc coalition.[5]
The party's core was formed primarily from former GERB, and to a lesser extent - also former DSB and SDS members. It officially positioned itself in the centre-right political space, seeing centrist and rightist parties as potential partners.[4] Despite the party's origins as a splinter movement, its leader has generally refused to rule out a potential future coalition government between his old and new parties.[6][7]
Tsvetanov stated that the party's goal was to become an "insurmountable factor in Bulgarian politics and a guarantor of the Euro-atlantic direction of development".[4] As such, it became one of the staunchest supporters of Bulgarian membership in NATO.[8]
