People's Party (Bulgaria).

About People's Party (Bulgaria)

The People's Party, also rendered as National or Nationalist Party, was a political group in Bulgaria, active between 1894 and 1920—during the country's existence as an autonomous principality and independent kingdom. A paternalistic-conservative force challenging and replacing the People's Liberal Party, it was founded and led until 1901 by Konstantin Stoilov, and thereafter by Ivan Evstratiev Geshov. First organizing in Ruse as an outgrowth of the Svobodno Slovo alliance, it traced its more distant origins to the Conservative Party, which had functioned in Bulgaria-proper during the early 1880s, and to the People's Party of Eastern Rumelia. All these groups were tightly oligarchic, alternating between a public embrace of liberal conservatism and a more ingrained commitment to paternalistic conservatism; beyond this, they supported a moderate version of Bulgarian nationalism, and had a foreign policy that was primarily centered on Russophilia. Unlike other Russophilic parties, the NP advocated for tight relations with Romania.