ABSTRACT
The turnout was over 75 per cent. There was a 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation. The Bulgarian Socialist Party did even better than expected, winning an absolute majority of seats in the National Assembly (see Table 2.1). Only five parties won seats in the National Assembly. Smaller ones failed to do so, e.g. the Democratic Alternative for the Republic (a centre-left coalition). The parties with seats in the National Assembly were as follows:
Bulgarian Socialist Party: leader Zhan Videnov. (The Bulgarian Socialist Party was joined in an election pact by the Bulgarian Agrarian Party ‘Alexander Stamboliski’ and the Political Club ‘Ecoglasnost’: Deutsche Bank, Focus: Eastern Europe, 1995, no. 130, p. 3.)
Union of Democratic Forces: leader Filip Dimitrov. (He resigned after the election and was replaced by Ivan Kostov.)
People’s Union: a coalition of the Democratic Party (which split from the UDF) and the Agrarian Party.
