Green Party of Bulgaria
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Green Party of Bulgaria
Зелена партия |
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| Leader | Aleksandar Karakachanov |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Ideology | Green politics |
| International affiliation | European Green Party |
| Colours | Green |
| National Assembly |
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| European Parliament |
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The Green Party is a centre-left political party. It was founded in 1989 in Sofia as the Green Party of Bulgaria. The initiator for the establishment of the party and its long-time chairman was Alexander Karakachanov.
In 1997, at the 38th National Assembly, the Green Party ran "The law repealing the banking secrecy for people with bad credits", better known as "The law for the credit millionaires". The uniqueness of this law is that it is the only document where are stated, black on white, the names of over three thousand individuals and legal entities who practically robbed the banking system. That's over one billion six hundred million dollars. Pressed by the law, part of the debtors returned to thе state 547 billion non-dominated levs or 547 million in present value. There is no other party, like the Green Party, that contributed so tangible to the society.
In July 2010, the Green Party through the national citizens' initiative, draft to the National Assembly "The law for restoring the swapped forests and lands". Its goal is the reversal of these swaps at the seaside and mountain resorts, and return the land and the forest area of over 70,000 hectares at cost about 6 billion levs to the state. All these lands were practically given almost for free to certain individuals. The ruling majority of GERB, in 41 National Assembly, in complete violation of the Constitution, did not allowed to plenary meeting the proposed bill and thus protected the swaps.
Not until September 2014, The European Commission has ordered Bulgaria to cancel part of the agreements for swaps of forest lands or reclaim the state aid provided to a number of companies. According to the Commission, there is a case of infringement of competition rules of the European Union. These are property swaps that took place in the period from January 2007 to January 2009. The Commission launched a thorough investigation on them in mid-2011 based on received complaints from the Green Party. The Commission concludes that the practice of swapping private forest estates with state-owned property at prices that are not updated regularly and are not in line with the market situation is incompatible with EU rules on state aid.
The Green Party was established on December 28, 1989 by Alexander Karakachanov and activists of the largest dissident movement "Ecoglastnost" under the name of The Green Party in Bulgaria and recorded in court in 1990 under the new Law on Political Parties. Right after its formation, the Green party became a part of the Union of the Democratic forces in Bulgaria (UDF), which was then a broad coalition of anti-totalitarian political parties and clubs. In the 7th Grand National Assembly the Green Party has 17 members of parliament and also is represented by two MPs in the 38th ordinary National Assembly.
The Green Party is the initiator and the submitter of the official proposal for the accession of Bulgaria into the European Union in the 7th Grand National Assembly.
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