Progressive Liberal Party (Bulgaria)
The Progressive Liberal Party (, ''Progresivnoliberalna partiya'', PLP) was a political party in Bulgaria. History The party was established by Dragan Tsankov as a splinter from the Liberal Party in 1884, and was pro-Russian in its orientation.Leon Trotsky (1980) ''The Balkan wars: 1912-13 : the war correspondence of Leon Trotsky'', Resistance Books, p484 In the 1894 elections it won eight of the 167 seats, a total it maintained in the 1899 elections. In the 1901 elections the PLP emerged as the largest party, winning 40 of the 164 seats.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p384 It remained the largest party after the 1902 elections, winning 89 seats, but was reduced to six seats in the 1903 elections. The 1908 elections saw the party win just three seats. For the 1911 Constitutional Assembly elections the PLP ran in alliance with the People's Party, with the joint list winning 342 of the 410 seats. The alliance was continued for ...
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Dragan Tsankov
Dragan Kiriakov Tsankov () (9 November 1828 – 24 March 1911) was a Bulgarian politician and the first Liberal Party Prime Minister of the country. He was born in Svishtov. Tsankov was initially a civil servant in the administration of the Ottoman Empire, who in the 1850s gained a reputation as a supporter of the Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church. His paper ''Bũlgaria'' appeared in Constantinople in 1859 and espoused his religious positions. Funded by France, the paper argued that a Uniat with Rome was the only solution to Bulgaria. Indeed, Tsankov, who was educated by the Jesuits, helped to form the Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church in 1861. Later he became closely associated with opposition to the Ottomans and the independence movement. Tsankov was initially opposed to the April Uprising but he soon changed his opinion and began to be active in support of independence. He served as deputy to Nayden Gerov in the Governorship of Svishtov during the brief period of Russian ...
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1908 Bulgarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 25 May 1908.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 The result was a victory for the Democratic Party, which won 166 of the 203 seats. Voter turnout was 50%.Nohlen & Stöver, p378 Results References {{Bulgarian elections Bulgaria parliamentary election Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

1884 Establishments In Bulgaria
Events January * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London to promote gradualist social progress. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera ''Princess Ida'', a satire on feminism, premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 7 – German microbiologist Robert Koch isolates ''Vibrio cholerae'', the cholera bacillus, working in India. * January 18 – William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, in Wales. Later tried and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to English law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the United Kingdom in modern times) on March 14, setting a legal precedent. * January – Arthur Conan Doyle's anonymous story " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" appears in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' (London). Based on the disappearance of the crew of the ''Mary Celeste'' in 1872, many of the fictional elements introduced by Doyle come to replace the real events in the ...
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Political Parties Established In 1884
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social status, status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other ...
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Liberal Parties In Bulgaria
Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * Generally, a supporter of the political philosophy liberalism. Liberals may be politically left or right but tend to be centrist. * An adherent of a Liberal Party (See also Liberal parties by country) * Classical liberalism * Liberalism (international relations) * Sexually liberal feminism * Social liberalism Arts, entertainment and media * ''El Liberal'', a Spanish newspaper published 1879–1936 * ''The Liberal'', a British political magazine published 2004–2012 * ''Liberalism'' (book), a 1927 book by Ludwig von Mises * "Liberal", a song by Band-Maid from the 2019 album '' Conqueror'' Places in the United States * Liberal, Indiana * Liberal, Kansas * Liberal, Missouri * Liberal, Oregon Religion * Religious liberalism * Liberal Christianity * Liberalism and progressivism within Islam * Liberal Judaism (other) People * Julia Liberal Liberal (born 1967), Spanish politician See also * * * Liberal arts (disambiguation ...
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Defunct Political Parties In Bulgaria
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1920 Bulgarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 28 March 1920.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 It was compulsory to vote.Richard J. Crampton (2007) ''Bulgaria'', Oxford/New York (NY) , p224 The result was a victory for the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU), which won 110 of the 229 seats. Voter turnout was 77%.Nohlen & Stöver, p379 Results Aftermath The BANU government annulled the election of 13 deputies – nine of them Communists – which gave them a majority in parliament. References {{Bulgarian elections Bulgaria Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Bulgaria Parliamentary In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

1919 Bulgarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 17 August 1919.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 The result was a victory for the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, which won 77 of the 236 seats. Voter turnout was 55%.Nohlen & Stöver, p379 Results References {{Bulgarian elections Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ... Parliamemtary ...
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1914 Bulgarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 23 February 1914.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 The result was a victory for the Liberal Concentration, an alliance of the Liberal Party, the People's Liberal Party and the Young Liberals Party, which won 126 of the 245 seats. Voter turnout was 67%.Nohlen & Stöver, p379 Results References {{Bulgarian elections Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ... Parliamentary ...
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1913 Bulgarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 24 November 1913.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 The result was a victory for the Liberal Concentration, an alliance of the Liberal Party (Radoslavists), the People's Liberal Party and the Young Liberals Party, between them won 88 of the 204 seats. Voter turnout was 55%.Nohlen & Stöver, p378 Results References {{Bulgarian elections Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Bulgaria Parliamentary In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

1911 Bulgarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 4 September 1911.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p368 The result was a victory for the People's Party–Progressive Liberal Party alliance, which won 190 of the 213 seats. Voter turnout was 47%.Nohlen & Stöver, p378 Results References {{Bulgarian elections Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Bulgaria Parliamentary In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

People's Party (Bulgaria)
The People's Party, also rendered as National or Nationalist Party (, NP, or ''Narodnyatsite'', "Populists"), was a political group in Bulgaria, active between 1894 and 1920—during the country's existence as an Principality of Bulgaria, autonomous principality and Kingdom of Bulgaria, independent kingdom. A Paternalistic conservatism, paternalistic-conservative force challenging and replacing the People's Liberal Party, it was founded and led until 1901 by Konstantin Stoilov, and thereafter by Ivan Evstratiev Geshov. First organizing in Ruse, Bulgaria, Ruse as an outgrowth of the ''Svobodno Slovo'' alliance, it traced its more distant origins to the Conservative Party (Bulgaria), Conservative Party, which had functioned in Bulgaria-proper during the early 1880s, and to the People's Party of Eastern Rumelia. All these groups were tightly Oligarchy, oligarchic, alternating between a public embrace of liberal conservatism and a more ingrained commitment to paternalistic conservatism; ...
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