Stand Up.BG

Stand Up.BG

Изправи се.БГ
Stand Up.BG Изправи се.БГ
Abbreviation	IS.BG, ISBG
Leader	Maya Manolova
Founded	6 December 2019; 6 years ago
Registered	1 May 2022; 4 years ago[citation needed]
Headquarters	4th building, 3rd floor, Slaveikov Square, Sofia
Ideology	Social liberalism
Political position	Centre-left to left-wing[citation needed]
National affiliation	Stand Up.BG! We are coming! (2021) The Left! (2023–2024) Solidary Bulgaria (2024) BSP – United Left (2024–2025)
Colours	Green; Orange
National Assembly	0 / 240
European Parliament	0 / 17
Municipalities	2 / 265
Sofia City Council	1 / 61
City councillors	100 / 5,025
Website
	izpravise.bg
	Politics of Bulgaria; Political parties; Elections;

Stand Up.BG or Stand Up Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Изправи се.БГ, romanized: 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. 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. At the protest, Manolova announced that she would run in the 2021 parliamentary election.

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). 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.

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. Volt Bulgaria party chair Nastimir Ananiev and Movement 21 party chair Tatyana Doncheva does the same. The System Kills Us announces its support for Nikola Vaptsarov as their representative in Stand Up.BG.
December 29, 2020: Poisonous Trio representative Nikolay Hadjigenov, signs an agreement to participate in the parliamentary elections with Stand Up.BG.
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."
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."
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."
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.
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."
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.

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Government
Apr 2021	Maya Manolova	150,940	4.72 (#6)	14 / 240	New	Snap election
Jul 2021		136,885	5.01 (#6)	13 / 240	1	Snap election
Nov 2021		60,055	2.29 (#8)	0 / 240	13	Extra-parliamentary
2022		25,207	1.01 (#9)	0 / 240	0	Extra-parliamentary
2023		56,481	2.24 (#8)	0 / 240	0	Extra-parliamentary
Jun 2024		31,476	1.47 (#10)	0 / 240	0	Extra-parliamentary
Oct 2024		184,403	7.56 (#5)	0 / 240	0	Snap election

1 2 Run as part of the Stand Up! Mafia, Get Out! coalition.
↑ Run as part of the Stand Up.BG! We are coming! coalition.
↑ Run as part of The Left! coalition.
↑ Run as part of the Solidary Bulgaria coalition.
↑ Run as part of the BSP – United Left coalition.

European Parliament

Election	List leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	EP Group
2024	Vanya Grigorova	24,685	1.23 (#11)	0 / 17	New	–

↑ Run as part of the Solidary Bulgaria coalition.

President

Election	Candidate	First round			Second round
Election	Candidate	Votes	%	Rank	Votes	%	Result
2026	Iliana Iotova	528,951	34.76	1st			TBA

References

1 2 3 "European Election Watch Bulgaria". Center for Strategic and International Studies. Archived from the original on 14 November 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
1 2 Boris Popivanov (May 2022). "POLIT-BAROMETER Year 22 Issue 5 May 2022" (PDF). Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Retrieved 20 September 2022. Former ombudsman Maya Manolova, who unambiguously distinguished herself from left-wing identification in her 2021 political initiatives, is now setting up a party with a much clearer left-wing phraseology. Her „Stand Up, Bulgaria" was announced on May 1st, Labour Day, under the motto that Bulgaria needs a „social party", which it is currently lacking. All this is a clear sign that in many circles there is a vision of a continuing decline of BSP, and hence of the beginning of the „struggle for the red heritage".
↑ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2022). "Bulgaria". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
↑ "Manolova started the creation of her party "Stand Up Bulgaria"". Darik News. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
↑ "Bulgaria's 2019 local elections: Ombudsman resigns, to stand as Sofia mayoral candidate". The Sofia Globe. 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
↑ NewsDesk, Darik (2021-01-23). "Stand up.BG "wants the resignation of Minister Sacheva". Darik.News. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
↑ ""Stand up.BG" demands the resignation of Minister Sacheva". frognews.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2021-04-01.
1 2 NewsDesk, Darik (2021-02-14). "Maya Manolova: There is no doubt that we are entering the parliament – ᐉ News from Bulgaria • latest news and current information". Darik.News. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
↑ Епицентър. "Зафиров - вицепремиер! Манолова, Дончева и Велизар Енчев напускат БСП-ОЛ заради правителство с ГЕРБ". Epicenter (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2025-01-12.
↑ Димитър Делчев: Можем и имаме силите да изгоним грабливите животни от властническото гнездо. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г.
↑ НАСТИМИР АНАНИЕВ: ВЛАСТТА СЕ ПРОВАЛИ И НЕ ИЗПЪЛНИ ОЧАКВАНИЯТА НА СУВЕРЕНА. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г.
↑ Татяна Дончева и Движение 21 се присъединяват към мрежата Изправи се.БГ. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г.
↑ НЕЛИ ДИМИТРОВА, СИСТЕМАТА НИ УБИВА: НЯМА КАК НЯКОЙ ДА Е ЗАЩИТЕН ОТ ДЪРЖАВАТА НА БОРИСОВ. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г.
↑ Официално: Мая Манолова и „Отровното трио“ ще се явят заедно на избори. // Dnevnik.bg. Посетен на 8 януари 2021 г.
↑ Майките от „Системата ни убива“ се разграничиха от Триото и Манолова. // Actualno.bg. Посетен на 8 януари 2021 г.
↑ Мая Манолова: По никакъв повод „Изправи се.БГ“ няма да прави коалиция с ГЕРБ. // Bntnews.bg. Посетен на 17 януари 2021 г.
↑ Настимир Ананиев, „Волт“: Хората трябва да гласуват, за да се направи един рестарт в България. // Bntnews.bg. Посетен на 29 януари 2021 г.
↑ Манолова и Триото отиват на избори с Изправи се! Мутри вън!. // Offnews.bg. Посетен на 7 февруари 2021 г.
↑ Последен шанс за постигане на съгласие преди изборите." // Facebook.com. Посетено на 10 февруари 2021 г.
↑ „Отровното трио“ предлага обединение с ДПС, БСП, „Има такъв народ“ и ДБ срещу ГЕРБ. // Frognews.bg. Посетен на 10 февруари 2021 г.

[mafia-21] 1 2 Run as part of the Stand Up! Mafia, Get Out! coalition.

[22] Run as part of the Stand Up.BG! We are coming! coalition.

[23] Run as part of The Left! coalition.

[24] Run as part of the Solidary Bulgaria coalition.

[25] Run as part of the BSP – United Left coalition.

[26] Run as part of the Solidary Bulgaria coalition.

[CSIS-1] 1 2 3 "European Election Watch Bulgaria". Center for Strategic and International Studies. Archived from the original on 14 November 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2022.

[FES-2] 1 2 Boris Popivanov (May 2022). "POLIT-BAROMETER Year 22 Issue 5 May 2022" (PDF). Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Retrieved 20 September 2022. Former ombudsman Maya Manolova, who unambiguously distinguished herself from left-wing identification in her 2021 political initiatives, is now setting up a party with a much clearer left-wing phraseology. Her „Stand Up, Bulgaria" was announced on May 1st, Labour Day, under the motto that Bulgaria needs a „social party", which it is currently lacking. All this is a clear sign that in many circles there is a vision of a continuing decline of BSP, and hence of the beginning of the „struggle for the red heritage".

[3] Nordsieck, Wolfram (2022). "Bulgaria". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 6 October 2022.

[4] "Manolova started the creation of her party "Stand Up Bulgaria"". Darik News. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.

[5] "Bulgaria's 2019 local elections: Ombudsman resigns, to stand as Sofia mayoral candidate". The Sofia Globe. 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2021-03-31.

[6] NewsDesk, Darik (2021-01-23). "Stand up.BG "wants the resignation of Minister Sacheva". Darik.News. Retrieved 2021-04-01.

[7] ""Stand up.BG" demands the resignation of Minister Sacheva". frognews.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2021-04-01.

[:0-8] 1 2 NewsDesk, Darik (2021-02-14). "Maya Manolova: There is no doubt that we are entering the parliament – ᐉ News from Bulgaria • latest news and current information". Darik.News. Retrieved 2021-04-01.

[9] Епицентър. "Зафиров - вицепремиер! Манолова, Дончева и Велизар Енчев напускат БСП-ОЛ заради правителство с ГЕРБ". Epicenter (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2025-01-12.

[10] Димитър Делчев: Можем и имаме силите да изгоним грабливите животни от властническото гнездо. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г.

[11] НАСТИМИР АНАНИЕВ: ВЛАСТТА СЕ ПРОВАЛИ И НЕ ИЗПЪЛНИ ОЧАКВАНИЯТА НА СУВЕРЕНА. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г.

[12] Татяна Дончева и Движение 21 се присъединяват към мрежата Изправи се.БГ. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г.

[13] НЕЛИ ДИМИТРОВА, СИСТЕМАТА НИ УБИВА: НЯМА КАК НЯКОЙ ДА Е ЗАЩИТЕН ОТ ДЪРЖАВАТА НА БОРИСОВ. // via YouTube. Посетен на 1 февруари 2021 г.

[14] Официално: Мая Манолова и „Отровното трио“ ще се явят заедно на избори. // Dnevnik.bg. Посетен на 8 януари 2021 г.

[15] Майките от „Системата ни убива“ се разграничиха от Триото и Манолова. // Actualno.bg. Посетен на 8 януари 2021 г.

[16] Мая Манолова: По никакъв повод „Изправи се.БГ“ няма да прави коалиция с ГЕРБ. // Bntnews.bg. Посетен на 17 януари 2021 г.

[17] Настимир Ананиев, „Волт“: Хората трябва да гласуват, за да се направи един рестарт в България. // Bntnews.bg. Посетен на 29 януари 2021 г.

[18] Манолова и Триото отиват на избори с Изправи се! Мутри вън!. // Offnews.bg. Посетен на 7 февруари 2021 г.

[19] Последен шанс за постигане на съгласие преди изборите." // Facebook.com. Посетено на 10 февруари 2021 г.

[20] „Отровното трио“ предлага обединение с ДПС, БСП, „Има такъв народ“ и ДБ срещу ГЕРБ. // Frognews.bg. Посетен на 10 февруари 2021 г.