The Patriotic Party of Labour ( bg, Отечествена партия на труда, ''Otechestvena partiya na truda'', OPT) was a political party in
Bulgaria
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.
History
The party was established after the end of the
Communist era
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as the political arm of the Committee for the Defence of National Interests. It contested the
1990 Constitutional elections, winning a single seat.
For the
1991 elections the party joined the
Pre-Electoral Union, an alliance led by the
Bulgarian Socialist Party
The Bulgarian Socialist Party ( bg, Българска социалистическа партия, translit=Balgarska sotsialisticheska partiya, BSP), also known as The Centenarian ( bg, Столетницата, links=no, translit=Stoletnitsat ...
.
[Elections in 1991]
IPU The alliance finished in second place, winning 106 of the 240 seats.
[
The party did not contest any further elections until ]2001
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, when it received just 0.04% of the vote.2001 elections
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References
Defunct political parties in Bulgaria
Labour parties
Political parties with year of disestablishment missing
Political parties with year of establishment missing
Social democratic parties in Bulgaria
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