Bulgarian Democratic Center ( – an acronym for "Bulgarian Democratic Center"), formerly (''Lider'' – ''Liberal Initiative for Democratic European Development'') is a Bulgarian political party registered in 2007.

Participation in elections

Lider participated in the

2009 European Parliament election The 2009 European Parliament election was held in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) between 4 and 7 June 2009. A total of 736 Member of the European Parliament, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent s ...

together with the

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Novoto Vreme and gathered 5.7% of the vote, which was just under the

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. Lider participated in the 2009 parliamentary election outside of any

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, winning only 3.3% of the votes and therefore failing to secure parliamentary representation. Lider did not nominate a candidate for the 2011 presidential election. In the 2013 parliamentary elections Lider polled 61,482 (1.74%) votes. Once again the party failed to cross the 4%

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for representation.

References

External links

* Conservative parties in Bulgaria Liberal parties in Bulgaria Political parties established in 2007 Pro-European political parties in Bulgaria 2007 establishments in Bulgaria {{Bulgaria-party-stub