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2025 Iraqi parliamentary election

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Iraq holds parliamentary elections amid ongoing regional instability, with competing factions backed by Iran, the United States, and regional powers vying for control of one of the Middle East's most strategically significant governments.

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Bulgaria Will Hold Parliamentary Elections

Paris, Tuesday Associated Press. Parliamentary election will be held in Bulgaria August seventeen. It appears probable that the Agrarian party will win the majority of seats.

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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, August 13, 1919 — front page Enlarge →

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1920 Bulgarian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 28 March 1920 to elect members of the XIX Ordinary National Assembly. The result was a victory for the ruling Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BZNS), which won 110 of the 229 seats.

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1923 Bulgarian coup d'état

The 1923 Bulgarian coup d'état, also known as the 9 June coup d'état, was a coup d'état in Bulgaria implemented by armed forces under General Ivan Valkov's Military League on the evening of 9 June 1923. The coup overthrew the elected government headed by Aleksandar Stamboliyski of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU), and replaced it with one under Aleksandar Tsankov.

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September Uprising

The September Uprising, also called the September Riots, was a 1923 communist insurgency in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) attempted to overthrow Alexandar Tsankov's new government established following the coup d'état of 9 June.

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Zveno

Zveno, officially Political Circle 'Zveno' was a Bulgarian political organization that was founded in 1930 by Bulgarian politicians, intellectuals and Bulgarian Army officers. As a palingenetic nationalist movement, Zveno advocated for the rationalization of Bulgaria's economic and political institutions under a dictatorship that would be independent of both the Soviet Union and the Axis powers.

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