Communist Party of Bulgaria

The Communist Party of Bulgaria (CPB, Bulgarian: Комунистическа Партия на България, КПБ, romanized: Komunisticheska Partiya na Bǎlgariya, KPB) is a communist party in Bulgaria, currently led by Aleksandar Paunov.

The party was founded in 1996 as the Communist Party.^[1]

Since 2001, it is part of the Coalition for Bulgaria, an alliance led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party. The party publishes the newspaper Rabotnicheski Vestnik.^[1] In the 2014 parliamentary election, the Coalition for Bulgaria received 15.4% of the popular vote and 39 out of 240 seats. The party remains represented in Parliament within the coalition after the 2017 election.^[2]

The party came under fire during the 2020 protests, when it was alleged that first secretary, Aleksandar Paunov, had had a phone call with convicted businessman Vasil Bozhkov. ^[3] Alexander Paunov went on to admit that the conversation took place, however denied any wrongdoing. ^[4] This led to Alexander Paunov being asked to leave the BSP for Bulgaria parliamentary group, of which he was a part, becoming an independent MP.

References

External links

• Official website

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Political parties in Bulgaria

National Assembly
(240 seats)

• GERB—SDS
  • 69; GERB
  • SDS
• PP–DB
  • 64; PP
  • DaB!
  • DSB
  • ZD
  • SEC
  • Volt
• Revival (37)
• Movement for Rights and Freedoms (36)
• BSP for Bulgaria
  • 23; BSP
  • Ecoglasnost
  • PK "Trakiya"
• There Is Such a People (11)

European Parliament
(17 seats)

• GERB (6)
• Bulgarian Socialist Party (5)
• Movement for Rights and Freedoms (3)
• VMRO (2)
• Democratic Bulgaria (1)

Unrepresented

• Agrarian Union "Aleksandar Stamboliyski"
• Alternative for Bulgarian Revival
• Attack
• Bulgaria for Citizens Movement
• Bulgarian Agrarian National Union
• Bulgarian Communist Party (modern)
• Bulgarian Left
• Bulgarian National Unification
• Bulgarian National Union – New Democracy
• Bulgarian New Democracy
• Bulgarian Progressive Line
• Bulgarian Rise
• Bulgarian Social Democracy – EuroLeft
• Bulgarian Summer
• Civil Union "Roma"
• Communist Party of Bulgaria
• Ecoglasnost
• Green Party of Bulgaria
• Lider
• Movement 21
• Movement for an Equal Public Model
• National Democratic Party
• National Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland
• National Movement for Stability and Progress
• Nationalist Party of Bulgaria
• Party of the Bulgarian Communists
• People's Voice
• Political Movement "Social Democrats"
• Reload Bulgaria
• Republicans for Bulgaria
• Russophiles for the Revival of the Fatherland
• Stand Up.BG
• The Left!
• The Other Bulgaria
• Union of Communists in Bulgaria
• Union of Free Democrats
• Union of the Patriotic Forces "Defense"

Defunct

• Alternative Social-Liberal Party
• Bulgarian Business Bloc
• Bulgarian Communist Party
• Bulgarian Communist Party – Marxists
• Bulgarian Euro-Left
• National Socialist Bulgarian Workers Party
• Bulgarian People's Union
• Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists)
• Bulgarian United Communist Party
• Communist Workers' Party of Bulgaria
• Conservative Party
• Constitutional Bloc
• Democratic Alliance
• George Ganchev's Bloc
• Liberal Party
• Liberal Party (Radoslavists)
• Movement for Social Humanism
• National Ideal for Unity
• National Liberal Party
• National Social Movement
• Order, Law and Justice
• Patriotic Front
• Patriotic Party of Labour
• People for Real, Open and United Democracy
• People's Alliance
• People's Liberal Party
• People's Party
• Progressive Liberal Party
• Reformist Bloc
• Social Democratic Union 'Proletarian'
• United Labour Social Democratic Party
• United Patriots
• United People's Progressive Party
• Young Liberals Party
• Zveno

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