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 ...
n party which existed between 1879 and 1884. It was linked with the newspapers Vitosha, Balgarski Glas and Otechestvo.
The Conservative party formed the first two governments of Liberated Bulgaria, but it didn't receive a majority in the parliamentary elections held in
1879
Events January
* January 1
** The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War.
** Brahms' Violin Concerto is premiered in Leipzig with Joseph Joachim ...
, triggering a motion of no confidence and snap elections in
1880
Events
January
*January 27 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the incandescent light bulb. Edison filed for a US patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected ... to platina contact wires." gr ...
, which they also lost. It supported the 1881 coup and the Proxy Regime of Alexander I Battenberg which suspended the
Tarnovo Constitution
The Tarnovo Constitution () was the first constitution of Bulgaria.
It was adopted on 16 April 1879 (Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in Eastern Europe, O.S.) by the Constituent National Assembly of Bulgaria, National Assembly held in ...
after which it was fully discredited and fell apart.
As early as 1882 the group of Marko Balabanov joined the moderate wing of the
Liberal Party
The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world.
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led by
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 ...
which later formed the
Progressive Liberal Party
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History
The PLP was founded in 1953 by William Cartwright, Cyril Stevenson, and Henry Milton ...
. After the political crisis of 1886 and 1887 some party members such as Dimitar Grekov and
Grigor Nachovich
Grigor Dimitrov Nachovich (; 3 February 1845 – 4 January 1920) was a Bulgarian politician and diplomat. One of the early leaders of the Conservative Party and the country's first Minister of Finance, he served as a minister in a number of Bulgar ...
joined the
People's Liberal Party
The People's Liberal Party (, ''Narodnoliberalna partiya'', NLP) was a political party in Bulgaria.
History
One of the four factions to emerge from the old Liberal Party, the party was established by Stefan Stambolov in 1886 as the Bulgaria fo ...
of
Stefan Stambolov
Stefan Nikolov Stambolov (; 31 January 1854 Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in Eastern Europe, OS – 19 July 1895 Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in Eastern Europe, OS) was a Bulgarian politician, journalist, revoluti ...
. The other leaders of the Conservative Party, led by
Konstantin Stoilov
Konstantin Stoilov () (23 September 1853 O.S. – 23 March 1901 O.S.) was a leading Bulgarian politician and twice Prime Minister. Simeon Radev described him as the most European-like of all Bulgarian politicians.People's Party in 1894 which also included members of the
Eastern Rumelia
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Grigor Nachovich
Grigor Dimitrov Nachovich (; 3 February 1845 – 4 January 1920) was a Bulgarian politician and diplomat. One of the early leaders of the Conservative Party and the country's first Minister of Finance, he served as a minister in a number of Bulgar ...
(1845–1920)
*
Konstantin Stoilov
Konstantin Stoilov () (23 September 1853 O.S. – 23 March 1901 O.S.) was a leading Bulgarian politician and twice Prime Minister. Simeon Radev described him as the most European-like of all Bulgarian politicians.Ivan Hadzhienov
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