The Failure to Restore the Monarchy in Post-Communist Bulgaria
The Failure to Restore the Monarchy in Post-Communist Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the heated debate in Bulgaria on restoring a monarchy that in the pre- Communist past was seen as a major obstacle to constitutionalism and democracy. It will examine the evolution and outcome of this divisive constitutional issue fragmenting Bulgaria's political consensus during the painfully long transition. This article will also address the question of why post-Communist Bulgaria has failed to bring back the monarchy abolished by a Communistordered referendum in 1946, even as the post-Communist political elite remained for so long deeply divided about how to settle this critical constitutional question.

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