Stand Up.BG orStand Up Bulgaria[1] (Bulgarian:Изправи се.БГ,romanized: Izpravi se.BG) is aBulgarian non-governmental organization and political party which was founded byMaya Manolova on December 6, 2019.
On September 3, 2019,Maya Manolova resigned as national ombudswoman toBulgaria to run for mayor ofSofia.[5] Manolova founded Stand Up.BG on December 6 of that year. On May 23, 2020, Stand Up.BG organized a protest in front of theCouncil of Ministers which demanded the resignation of the government.[6] At the protest, Manolova announced that she would run in the2021 parliamentary election.[7]
The organization participated in the country'santi-government protests. On August 31, 2020, Stand Up.BG announced that it would not become a political party; it would participate in elections as a partner network encompassing dozens of initiative committees from throughout the country. At the end of the year, an agreement on joint participation in the elections was signed with the Poisonous Trio (Otrovnoto trio).[8] The leaders of Stand Up.BG and the Poisonous Trio announced on February 7, 2021 that they would not negotiate withGERB andDPS, and would run instead as a coalition entitledStand Up! Mafia, Get Out!.[8]
IS.BG joined theBSP – United Left electoral coalition in the run-up to theOctober 2024 election, but left the alliance in 2025 in opposition to the prospect of joining the government withGERB amongst others.[9]
December 29, 2020: Poisonous Trio representativeNikolay Hadjigenov, signs an agreement to participate in the parliamentary elections with Stand Up.BG.[14]
January 6, 2021: The System Kills Us issues a statement refusing to support "any political or civic formation in the upcoming parliamentary elections that has anything to do with the so-called Poisonous Trio."[15]
January 29, 2021:Volt Bulgaria leaderNastimir Ananiev says in a BNT interview that "a coalition will certainly be formed [by us]", and he "firmly excludes" GERB and theBulgarian Socialist Party from any coalition with Stand Up.BG. Asked about a coalition withThere Is Such a People, Ananiev replies, "If we unite in politics" and adds that "the people we can't work with ... are the hidden model that is currently governing. Officially ... that is GERB and theUnited Patriots, but in fact it is GERB andDPS."[17]
February 7, 2021: The leaders of Stand Up.BG and the Poisonous Trio announce that they will run together in the elections under the name "Stand Up! Mafia, Get Out!", and they refuse to negotiate with GERB andDPS.[18]
February 10, 2021: The Poisonous Trio sends an open letter to the chairs of There Is Such A People,Democratic Bulgaria, BSP and DPS, urging them not to "enter into an overt or covert coalition withBoyko Borisov and GERB" and to "negotiate and vote on texts that remove the prosecutor general from the judiciary and establish control mechanisms over theProsecutor General of Bulgaria", "uphold the country'sEuro-Atlantic orientation" and "defend theparliamentary republic."[19][20]
April 4, 2021: The coalition "Stand Up! Mafia Out!" receives 4.72% of the vote in the parliamentary elections or 150,940 votes, thus entering the 45th National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria with 14 seats.
May, 2021: the parliamentary group of "Stand Up! Mafia Out!" with its leader Maya Manolova founds a parliamentary commission for revision of the government for the past 10 years which created a lot of public scandals related to revelations about corruption in Boyko Borissov's government
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