The Patriotic Party of Labour ( bg, Отечествена партия на труда, ''Otechestvena partiya na truda'', OPT) was a political party in

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...

History

The party was established after the end of the

Communist era A Communist Era is a sustained period of national government by a single party following the philosophy of Marxism–Leninism. Many countries have experienced such a period of Communist rule. Current communist states China The Chinese Communist ...

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

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, when it received just 0.04% of the vote.2001 elections
University of Essex

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