Alternative Social-Liberal Party ( bg, Алтернативна социаллиберална партия), was founded on February 11, 1990, as the Alternative Socialist Party (''Алтернативна социалистическа партия''). The party was formed previously by a minority fraction of the
Bulgarian Communist Party
The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP; bg, Българска Комунистическа Партия (БКП), Balgarska komunisticheska partiya (BKP)) was the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 until 198 ...
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The party was registered on March 7, 1990, with first president Nikolay Vasilev. The party participated independently in the 1990 parliamentary elections, and got 0.36% of the votes.
The second congress of the party, held on June 1, 1991, decided to change the name of the party to the current denomination. The new name was registered on August 28.
From 1990 to 1992 the party was a member of the
Union of Democratic Forces. In the October 1991 parliamentary elections, the party won six seats on the lists of UDF.
In 1994 it was one of the four parties that founded the
Democratic Alternative for the Republic
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Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
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In 2001 the president of the party, Vasil Velinov, launched a new party, the
Alliance for Social-Liberal Progress
Alliance for Social-Liberal Progress (in Bulgarian: ''Алианс за социаллиберален прогрес'') is a political party in Bulgaria. The party was founded on February 18, 2001, and registered on March 28.
The party is led ...
. The remainder of ASP is now led by
Alexander Dimitrov
Alexander Dimitrov ( bg, Александър Димитров) was born in 1973 in Sofia. He holds a master's degree in Electrical Machinery from the Technical University - Sofia and a master's degree in Marketing and Management from the Universi ...
and Raicho Radev.
In the 2001 elections ASP got 4267 votes (0.09%).
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Defunct political parties in Bulgaria
1990 establishments in Bulgaria
Political parties established in 1990
Socialist parties in Bulgaria
Liberal parties in Bulgaria
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