Stand Up.BG

{{Short description|Civic platform}}

{{More citations needed|date=October 2022}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Stand Up.BG

| native_name = Изправи се.БГ

| native_name_lang = bg

| logo = Лого на Изправи се.БГ.png

| colorcode = {{Political party data|color}}

| abbreviation = IS.BG, ISBG

| leader = Maya Manolova

| founded = {{Start date and age|2019|12|6|df=yes}}

| registered = {{Start date and age|2022|5|1|df=yes}}{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

| headquarters = 4th building, 3rd floor, Slaveikov Square, Sofia

| ideology = Social liberalism{{cite web|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|title=Bulgaria|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/bulgaria.html|year=2022|access-date=6 October 2022}}
Social democracy
Anti-corruption
Left-wing populism
Direct democracy
E-democracy
Pro-Europeanism

| position = Centre-left to left-wing{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}{{cite web|title=POLIT-BAROMETER Year 22 Issue 5 May 2022|url=https://bulgaria.fes.de/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/publications/2022/Barometer_Year22_Issue5_May_WEB_ENG.pdf|author=Boris Popivanov|website=Friedrich Ebert Stiftung|language=en|date=May 2022|access-date=20 September 2022}}{{cite web|title=Manolova started the creation of her party "Stand Up Bulgaria"|url=https://darik.news/en/manolova-started-the-creation-of-her-party-stand-up-bulgaria.html|website=Darik News|language=en|date=4 April 2022|access-date=20 September 2022}}

| national = Stand Up.BG! We are coming! (2021)
The Left! (2023–2024)
Solidary Bulgaria (2024)
BSP – United Left (2024–2025)

| colours = {{color box|{{party color|Stand Up.BG}}|border=darkgray}} Green
{{color box|#F7941E|border=darkgray}} Orange

| seats1_title = National Assembly

| seats1 = {{Political party data|seat composition bar|ms-lower-house}}

| seats2_title = European Parliament

| seats2 = {{Political party data|seat composition bar|EP}}

| seats3_title = Municipalities

| seats3 = {{Composition bar|3|265|hex={{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| seats4_title = Sofia City Council

| seats4 = {{Composition bar|1|61|{{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| seats5_title = City councillors

| seats5 = {{Composition bar|100|5025|{{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| website = {{Political party data|website}}

| country = Bulgaria

}}

Stand Up.BG or Stand Up Bulgaria{{cite web |url=https://www.csis.org/programs/european-election-watch/bulgaria |title=European Election Watch Bulgaria |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Center for Strategic and International Studies |access-date=4 January 2022 |quote= |archive-date=14 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114233504/https://www.csis.org/programs/european-election-watch/bulgaria |url-status=dead }} ({{Langx|bg|Изправи се.БГ|translit=Izpravi se.BG}}) is a Bulgarian non-governmental organization and political party which was founded by Maya Manolova on December 6, 2019.

History

On September 3, 2019, Maya Manolova resigned as national ombudswoman to Bulgaria to run for mayor of Sofia.{{Cite web|date=2019-09-03|title=Bulgaria's 2019 local elections: Ombudsman resigns, to stand as Sofia mayoral candidate|url=https://sofiaglobe.com/2019/09/03/bulgarias-2019-local-elections-ombudsman-resigns-to-stand-as-sofia-mayoral-candidate/|access-date=2021-03-31|website=The Sofia Globe|language=en-US}} Manolova founded Stand Up.BG on December 6 of that year. On May 23, 2020, Stand Up.BG organized a protest in front of the Council of Ministers which demanded the resignation of the government.{{Cite web|last=NewsDesk|first=Darik|date=2021-01-23|title=Stand up.BG "wants the resignation of Minister Sacheva|url=https://darik.news/en/stand-up-bg-wants-the-resignation-of-minister-sacheva.html|access-date=2021-04-01|website=Darik.News|language=en-US}} At the protest, Manolova announced that she would run in the 2021 parliamentary election.{{Cite web|title="Stand up.BG" demands the resignation of Minister Sacheva |url=https://frognews.bg/novini/izpravi-iska-ostavkata-ministar-sacheva.html|access-date=2021-04-01|website=frognews.bg|language=bg}}

The organization participated in the country's anti-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).{{Cite web|last=NewsDesk|first=Darik|date=2021-02-14|title=Maya Manolova: There is no doubt that we are entering the parliament – ᐉ News from Bulgaria • latest news and current information|url=https://darik.news/en/maya-manolova-there-is-no-doubt-that-we-are-entering-the-parliament-%e1%90%89-news-from-bulgaria-latest-news-and-current-information.html|access-date=2021-04-01|website=Darik.News|language=en-US}} The leaders of Stand Up.BG and the Poisonous Trio announced on February 7, 2021 that they would not negotiate with GERB and DPS, and would run instead as a coalition entitled Stand Up! Mafia, Get Out!.

IS.BG joined the BSP – United Left electoral coalition in the run-up to the October 2024 election, but left the alliance in 2025 in opposition to the prospect of joining the government with GERB amongst others.{{Cite web |last=Епицентър |title=Зафиров - вицепремиер! Манолова, Дончева и Велизар Енчев напускат БСП-ОЛ заради правителство с ГЕРБ |url=https://epicenter.bg/article/Zafirov---vitsepremier--Manolova--Doncheva-i-Velizar-Enchev-napuskat-BSP-OL-zaradi-pravitelstvo-s-GERB/373011/2/0 |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Epicenter |language=bg}}

{{anchor|2020/2021 election campaign}}2020–2021 election campaign

  • August 2020: Bulgaria for Citizens Movement president Dimitar Delchev announces the union of his party with Stand Up.BG during a public presentation in Slaveykov Square.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO8DM6rPMsQ Димитър Делчев: Можем и имаме силите да изгоним грабливите животни от властническото гнездо]. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г. Volt Bulgaria party chair Nastimir Ananiev and Movement 21 party chair Tatyana Doncheva does the same.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF1wKWbcmTM НАСТИМИР АНАНИЕВ: ВЛАСТТА СЕ ПРОВАЛИ И НЕ ИЗПЪЛНИ ОЧАКВАНИЯТА НА СУВЕРЕНА]. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pu7r9Zixgo Татяна Дончева и Движение 21 се присъединяват към мрежата Изправи се.БГ]. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г. The System Kills Us announces its support for Nikola Vaptsarov as their representative in Stand Up.BG.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q_F0c18Hbg НЕЛИ ДИМИТРОВА, СИСТЕМАТА НИ УБИВА: НЯМА КАК НЯКОЙ ДА Е ЗАЩИТЕН ОТ ДЪРЖАВАТА НА БОРИСОВ]. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г.
  • December 29, 2020: Poisonous Trio representative Nikolay Hadjigenov, signs an agreement to participate in the parliamentary elections with Stand Up.BG.[https://www.dnevnik.bg/politika/2020/12/29/4158020_oficialno_maia_manolova_i_otrovnoto_trio_shte_se/ Официално: Мая Манолова и „Отровното трио“ ще се явят заедно на избори]. // Dnevnik.bg. Посетен на 8 януари 2021 г.
  • 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."[https://www.actualno.com/politics/majkite-ot-sistemata-ni-ubiva-se-razgranichiha-ot-trioto-i-manolova-news_1545413.html Майките от „Системата ни убива“ се разграничиха от Триото и Манолова]. // Actualno.bg. Посетен на 8 януари 2021 г.
  • January 17, 2021: In a Bulgarian National Television (BNT) interview, Maya Manolova says that Stand Up.BG "will never, and on no occasion, form a coalition with GERB."[https://bntnews.bg/news/maya-manolova-po-nikakav-povod-izpravi-sebg-nyama-da-pravi-koaliciya-s-gerb-1091721news.html Мая Манолова: По никакъв повод „Изправи се.БГ“ няма да прави коалиция с ГЕРБ]. // Bntnews.bg. Посетен на 17 януари 2021 г.
  • January 29, 2021: Volt Bulgaria leader Nastimir Ananiev says in a BNT interview that "a coalition will certainly be formed [by us]", and he "firmly excludes" GERB and the Bulgarian Socialist Party from any coalition with Stand Up.BG. Asked about a coalition with There 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 the United Patriots, but in fact it is GERB and DPS."[https://bntnews.bg/news/nastimir-ananiev-volt-horata-tryabva-da-glasuvat-za-da-se-napravi-edin-restart-v-balgariya-1093499news.html Настимир Ананиев, „Волт“: Хората трябва да гласуват, за да се направи един рестарт в България]. // Bntnews.bg. Посетен на 29 януари 2021 г.
  • 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 and DPS.[https://offnews.bg/politika/manolova-i-trioto-otivat-na-izbori-s-izpravi-se-mutri-van-video-745440.html Манолова и Триото отиват на избори с Изправи се! Мутри вън!]. // Offnews.bg. Посетен на 7 февруари 2021 г.
  • 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 with Boyko Borisov and GERB" and to "negotiate and vote on texts that remove the prosecutor general from the judiciary and establish control mechanisms over the Prosecutor General of Bulgaria", "uphold the country's Euro-Atlantic orientation" and "defend the parliamentary republic."[https://www.facebook.com/otrovnototrio/posts/274328684117103 Последен шанс за постигане на съгласие преди изборите]." // Facebook.com. Посетено на 10 февруари 2021 г.[https://frognews.bg/novini/otrovnoto-trio-predlaga-obedinenie-dps-bsp-ima-takav-narod-sreshtu-gerb.html „Отровното трио“ предлага обединение с ДПС, БСП, „Има такъв народ“ и ДБ срещу ГЕРБ]. // Frognews.bg. Посетен на 10 февруари 2021 г.
  • 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

Election results

=National Assembly=

In the snap April 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary election, the Stand Up! Mafia, Get Out! coalition finished in sixth place with 4.72 percent of the popular vote and 14 seats in the country's 45th National Assembly.

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! Election

! Leader

! Votes

! %

! Seats

! +/–

! Government

Apr 2021{{efn|name="mafia"|Run as part of the Stand Up! Mafia, Get Out! coalition.}}

| rowspan=7 |Maya Manolova

| 150,940

| 4.72 (#6)

| {{Composition bar|14|240|hex={{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| New

| {{partial2|Snap election}}

Jul 2021{{efn|name="mafia"}}

| 136,885

| 5.01 (#6)

| {{Composition bar|13|240|{{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| {{decrease}} 1

| {{partial2|Snap election}}

Nov 2021{{efn|Run as part of the Stand Up.BG! We are coming! coalition.}}

| 60,055

| 2.29 (#8)

| {{Composition bar|0|240|{{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| {{decrease}} 13

| {{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

2022

| 25,207

| 1.01 (#9)

| {{Composition bar|0|240|{{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| {{steady}} 0

| {{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

2023{{efn|Run as part of The Left! coalition.}}

| 56,481

| 2.24 (#8)

| {{Composition bar|0|240|{{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| {{steady}} 0

| {{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

Jun 2024{{efn|Run as part of the Solidary Bulgaria coalition.}}

| 31,476

| 1.47 (#10)

| {{Composition bar|0|240|{{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| {{steady}} 0

| {{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

Oct 2024{{efn|Run as part of the BSP – United Left coalition.}}

| 184,403

| 7.56 (#5)

| {{Composition bar|0|240|{{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| {{steady}} 0

| {{partial2|Snap election}}

{{Notelist}}

=European Parliament=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
Election

! List leader

! Votes

! %

! Seats

! +/–

! EP Group

2024{{efn|Run as part of the Solidary Bulgaria coalition.}}

| Vanya Grigorova

| 24,685

| 1.23 (#11)

| {{Composition bar|0|17|{{party color|Stand Up.BG}}}}

| New

| –

{{Notelist}}

References