George Ganchev's Bloc ( bg, Блокът на Жорж Ганчев, ''Blokit na Zhorzh Ganchev'', BZG) was a

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History

The party was founded by

George Ganchev George Ganchev (born Georgi Petrushev) ( bg, Жорж Ганчев , born ; August 29, 1939 – August 19, 2019) was a Bulgarian politician and founder of the now-defunct political parties Bulgarian Business Bloc and George Ganchev's Bloc. ...

ahead of the 2001 parliamentary elections after he left the

Bulgarian Business Bloc The Bulgarian Business Bloc ( bg, Български бизнес блок, Bulgarski biznes blok, BBB) was a political party in Bulgaria. History The party first participated in national elections in 1991, when it received 1.3% of the national v ...

(BBB). Whilst the BBB had won twelve seats in the 1997 elections, Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p387 the new party received only 0.4% of the vote and failed to win a seat, whilst the BBB received just 162 votes, losing all 12 seats. In the

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later in the year, Ganchev ran, but received just 3.4% of the vote.2001 Presidential Elections
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References

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