General Information
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Country
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Bulgaria
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Abbreviation
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PIB
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Newspaper
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PIB's News
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Organization
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PIB Headquarters
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Forum
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[1]
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Political
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President
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LitoII
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Members
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390
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Congress Occupancy
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8/40 seats, 20%
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Succeeds
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Boycott
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Orientation
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Center-right
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Ideology
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Libertarian
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Party of the Independent Bulgarians was founded by NKFV. It succeeds the Boycott Party. It's president NKFV decided to drop the Boycott project and instead of making a new party, used his old one to launch the Party of the Independent Bulgarians. The party was founded with the idea to be an alternative to two opposing coalitions that existed at the time.
History
The Party of the Independent Bulgarians was founded on December 9, 2010 by NKFV. At that time Bulgaria was shaken up by the diplomatic conflict with Iran and Phoenix. The Party took a pro-EDEN stance, believing that Bulgaria was betrayed by her allies. PIB declares itself against BNF, which it considers a pseudo-nationalist party. After Bulgaria takes a sharp turn in its foreign policy, when the president SturmmannIYI proposes MPPs with various EDEN countries on December 16, 2010, PIB supports the change in alliance, although it criticizes the president for not observing the Constitution. The party is against any alliances with Macedonia, Turkey and Serbia.
On January 7, PIB officially declared it support for Bulgaria becoming a member of the EDEN alliance. Although the party was growing and managed to get 11 congressman after the elections in the end of the month, it didn't nominate its own presidential candidate but instead supported the nomination of Podkrepa. Because of some mistakes the new president made, he was not supported for a second term (although he managed to win it anyway).
During that PIB started several initiatives. The position „Agitator“ was created - those people wrote the „Informational Bulletin“, which informed the party members about the the things happening in the party. The voluntary members fee was created which was used to help the younger party members. The party created the so called "Blockers" - people who participate in the congress election in regions where there aren't enough candidates to fill the quota. This allows the party to control who gets nominated for the elections. Another initiative was the competition "Journalist of PIB". It didn't gather much interest and wasn't done a second time. The party forum was created to serve as a method of communication alongside the party chat. The March term of the congress for the PIB congressman was marked with inactivity. For the first time a member of the party was expelled.
On April 7, 2011 the paramilitary unit of PIB - the Army of Independent Bulgarians (AIB) was created.
Party Presidents
Congress
Country Presidents from this party
see List of presidents of Bulgaria