Balgarianovinite.com The National Assembly of Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) will take place on Saturday at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, the forum’s organizing committee said. Delegates will elect a party chair, national leadership and governing bodies, and will set the party’s priorities for the next mandate.
Official guests, representatives of the parties in the Democratic Bulgaria coalition, non-governmental organizations and international partners have been invited to attend.
The candidates for party leader are MEP and former DSB chair Radan Kanev, MP and current DSB Deputy Chair Yordan Ivanov, and Vasko Vasilev, founder of the Dialogue Club and one of the party’s founders. All three have presented their programmes and visions for the party’s future development, which have been published on DSB’s website.
According to information published on the party’s website, Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria was founded on May 30, 2004, at Bulgaria Hall in Sofia, with former prime minister Ivan Kostov elected as its first chair. Current DSB leader Atanas Atanassov has headed the party since 2017, having previously served for several years as its deputy chair. He also chaired the party’s Sofia organization for many years.
In his vision for the party’s future, Kanev outlined what he sees as DSB’s tasks in light of new political realities. These are simple and clear, he argues, but require an ambitious vision for both the party and the country: addressing the risks stemming from what he describes as “the one-man populist rule of Prime Minister Rumen Radev”, actively contributing to the consolidation of the democratic opposition between 2026 and 2030, and presenting Bulgarian society with a bold centre-right alternative based on a new national consensus under the “Bulgaria 2050” horizon.
Preparing for the 2027 local elections is the main organizational and political priority in Ivanov’s programme for DSB’s development, published on the party’s website. His concept, titled “DSB – Stage 4,” includes plans to build stronger local organizations, encourage more active member participation in party life, foster a new generation of political leaders, and strengthen DSB’s presence both in public debate and within Democratic Bulgaria.
“My goal is to achieve high quality in everything we do in DSB,” Vasilev says in his vision for the party’s development, also published on the party’s website. He was involved in establishing the civic association Dialogue, from which DSB later emerged. “DSB is closest to the Conservatives in the United Kingdom. Inviolable private property and a free-market economy. A Christian value system. And common sense in the spending of public funds, as good stewards do. These are the principles we place at the centre of DSB’s work,” Vasilev says. Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria to Elect New Chair at National Assembly 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-07-11 07:27:09 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law