The Bulgarian Socialist Party won the parliamentary elections in 2005 with 82 out of the 240 seats, thus it didn't get the majority of the seats, with Simeon's movement being the second party.

* October 13 – In the Bulgarian parliamentary election, the Union of Democratic Forces defeats the Bulgarian Socialist Party, leaving no remaining Communist governments in Eastern Europe.

In 2012 Bulgarian Turks are represented at every level of government-local, with MRF having mayors in 35 municipalities, at parliamentary level with MRF having 38 deputies ( 14 % of the votes in Parliamentary elections for 2009-13 ) and at executive level, where there is currently one Turkish minister-Vezhdi Rashidov.

* In the Bulgarian parliamentary election, 1997 the Coalition won 49, 2 % of the popular vote and 139 out of 240 seats.

* In the Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2001, the coalition won 18. 2 % of the popular vote and 51 out of 240 seats.

* In the Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2005, the coalition won 7, 7 % of the popular vote and 20 of 240 seats

Furthermore, despite a similar constitutional ban, religious parties, such as the Bulgarian Christian Coalition have competed for parliamentary elections since 1997, and again in 2005, without any political upheaval.

However, these movements, as well as the National Movement for Rights and Freedoms, member of a Social-Democratic coalition (' Rose coalition ') failed to secure any elected representative, including through coalitions with non-ethnic parties, whereas the MRF became the third main Bulgarian party at the June 2005 parliamentary elections and entered a three-party coalition in August with the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the National Movement Simeon II.

At the last Bulgarian parliamentary election in 2009, the Coalition for Bulgaria received 17. 7 % of the popular vote and 40 out of 240 seats.

In Bulgaria, all existing parliamentary parties have stated that they would never form a coalition with Attack, since they regard it as a xenophobic group, and a threat to Bulgarian ethnic minorities.

* In the Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2001, the Coalition won 17. 1 % of the popular vote and 48 out of 240 seats.

* In the Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2005, the coalition won 34. 2 % of the popular vote and 82 out of 240 seats.

At the last Bulgarian parliamentary election in 2009, the Coalition for Bulgaria received 17. 7 % of the popular vote and 40 out of 240 seats.

Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2005-Elections were held on June 25, 2005, for the 240 members of the National Assembly.

** First round of the Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election sees the Bulgarian Socialist Party win a majority.

* January 19 – The Bulgarian presidential election is won by Zhelyu Zhelev, leader of the Union of Democratic Forces.

Conditions for the restoration of the Bulgarian Patriarchate and the election of a head of the Bulgarian Church were created after World War II.

Conditions for the restoration of the Bulgarian Patriarchate and the election of head of the Bulgarian Church were created after World War II.

Ataka claims this is a " pre-election trick by the government, in order to silence one of its main competitors in the election "; however, Clive Leviev-Sawyer, a Bulgarian Jewish journalist, cites " consumer complaints and hate speech " as the reasons for the channel being dropped by some providers.

The socialist movement in Thessaloniki ( present Northern Greece ) during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire was divided across ethnic lines between the Sephardi Jews ( who formed the majority of the population ), the Bulgarian and Macedonian Slavs and the Greeks, but all groups united when it came to election time.

The opposition Leftist Coalition, headed by Bulgarian Socialist Party lead the election, but did not gain an outright majority.

During the course of 2009, the grim forecasts for the effects of the global crisis on the Bulgarian economy largely materialized.

* In January 2009, a successful Google bomb was performed against the site of the Bulgarian Government by a loose group of bloggers and forum users.

From September, 2009, when the Pan-European Cartoon Network was replaced by a sepаrate Bulgarian Cartoon Network, the show started broadcasting in the Bulgarian language and was called Kurazh, strahlivoto kuche (), but was stopped in the next year.

In September 2009 she ran for the post of UNESCO Director-General but lost to the Bulgarian candidate Irina Bokova.

They also appeared with the London Bulgarian Choir as part of the BBC Electric Proms series in October 2009.

Litex with the Bulgarian Cup in 2009.

In the recent years, Litex won the Bulgarian Cup four times, in 2001 ( a 1: 0 win against Velbazhd Kyustendil after extra time ), in 2004 ( a win over CSKA after a 2: 2 in the regular time and a penalty shootout ), in 2008 a win over Cherno More Varna ( 1: 0 ) and in 2009 against Pirin Blagoevgrad ( 3: 0 in the regular time ).

On September 5, 2009, Register. bg started accepting second-and third-level domain names in Cyrillic with letters found in the Bulgarian language only.

The peak is located at which is 3. 1 km east by north of Sevtopolis Peak, 5. 1 km west-southwest of Spark Point, 4. 47 km north-northeast of Tile Ridge and 4. 9 km northeast of Lloyd Hill ( British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Chilean in 1947, Argentine in 1953, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009 ).

In 2009 she co-wrote with the Bulgarian screenwriter Nikolay Yordanov а biographical book about her years in Libya.

Her father, born Hassan Halilov Ibrahimoff ( March 21, 1920 – March 6, 2009 ), worked at a race track ; he was a Bulgarian Muslim immigrant, born in Oraio, Xanthi, Greece, and lived in Bulgaria, where his half brother Ferhat still lives, before moving to the United States on May 4, 1949.

** Bulgarian A PFG 1997-1998, 2009 / 2010

** Bulgarian Cup 2009

When Manchester United won the Premier League on 16 May 2009, Berbatov became the first Bulgarian to play in an English Premier League title-winning team.

Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma (; born 3 February 1947 ) is a retired Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on 18 November 2009.

* Grandmother Marta, traditional Bulgarian custom, from BalkanFolk. com, 26 Feb 2009.

Félicien made his competitive debut for Loko on 6 March 2009 against OFC Sliven 2000 in round of 16 of the Bulgarian top division.

Dasgupta's second novel, Solo ( HarperCollins, 2009 ) is an epic tale of the 20th and 21st centuries told from the perspective of a one hundred-year old Bulgarian man.

As a result, the team finished in last place, 16th, with only 5 wins in 30 games, in the Bulgarian A PFG, and was relegated to B PFG for the 2008 / 2009 season.

The first detailed topographic mapping of the island was made by the Antarctic Place-names Commission and the Military Topographic Service of the Bulgarian Army and published in 2009 in both English and Bulgarian.

Despite being born in Bulgaria and having Bulgarian heritage, Karatantcheva took Kazakh citizenship and began playing for Kazakhstan on February 2, 2009.