Union of Democratic Forces

Despite these reforms, the opposition Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) won leadership of the Bulgarian government by a small margin over the BSP in elections held in 1991 and 1997. The National Movement for Simeon II (NDSV), a new party centred on the former king of Bulgaria (but not seeking…

Many of these joined the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF), a coalition led by the sociologist Zheliu Zhelev. By the spring of 1990, at a roundtable held between early January and May 1990, the UDF and the BSP had agreed to free elections for a Grand National Assembly that would…

…the first chair of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF), a loose association of dissident groups and revived prewar political parties dedicated to bringing about democratic reform in Bulgaria. In June he won a seat in a Grand National Assembly to draft a new constitution, and in August the Assembly…