Lider (political party)

Lider ( Bulgarian ЛИДЕР ) is a Bulgarian liberal political party by the big business and energy investor Christo Kowatschki. It was founded in 2007 with the Chairman Kant Scholars Filipow among others Kowatschki.

The party Lider has few sponsors who have donated but larger amounts: 24 companies, mainly from the energy sector. Among the donors are also several companies of Christo Kowatschki.

In the European elections on June 7, 2009, she surprisingly won in coalition with the party Nowoto Wreme 5.70% of the votes and thus failed to close the entry into the European Parliament. Here the party and especially Kowatschki by some observers was accused of having in many places pressure on its employees to choose the party Lider. Thus, three out of four voters in Pernik and Bobow Dol, where Kowatschki heating plants and coal mines operates voted for Lider. Kowatschki denies, however, workers have threatened with dismissal or lured by the promise of jobs: " .. I mean people have only asked to vote for our party ," he says.

At the 2009 parliamentary elections on 5 July 2009 she appeared again in the coalition Lider - Nowoto Wreme. It is supported by the party leadership of the Democratic Party, but not from their base. However, they could not convince the voters, won just over 3% of the vote and failed to enter parliament.

On 18 November, the Bulgarian Interior Minister and Chairman of the party GERB Tsvetan Tsvetanov, the Lider party was a joint project of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( DPS ) reported.