Bulgaria

Bulgaria is a country in south-eastern Europe, it is known for it's progressive socialist government, which anti-capitalist, and pro-market socialism and socially progressive policies.

The Second Triple Coalition
In 2024, a newly elected coalition government between the nominally Social Democratic Bulgarian Socialist Party, the syncretic, big tent "Yes, Bulgaria!" party, whose primary focus is on civic engagement and anti-corruption policies and the nationalist United Patriots, a former electoral alliance of several small nationalist parties that is now a fully unified political party.

The triple coalition, unlike it's 2005-2009 namesake, is seen as bringing several positive reforms to the Bulgarian economy as well as several small anti-corruption measures that are seen as improving the standards of living in Bulgaria by a notable amount.

The coalition is re-elected in 2028, marking the first time since the fall of the Communist regime in 1991 that a government has been re-elected to power with the ruling coalition having a net increase in seats in the Bulgarian National Assembly, the Parliament of Bulgaria.

The coalition is brought to an abrupt end in 2030, when Hristo Ivanov, former Minister of Justice and current Minister of Interior Affairs as well as party leader of "Yes, Bulgaria!" announces that his party will no longer be a member of the triple coalition, citing corruption and lack of progress towards eradicating it by the government despite his best efforts.

Shortly afterwards, Prime Minister Vasil Videnov of the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party resigns, likewise citing party corruption as the reason and endorsing the Progressive Socialists, a Left-Wing, Democratic Socialist party that advocates for the gradual replacement of capitalism with market socialism via political reforms to the workplace, gradually democratizing it with stronger labor unions and increased taxes to corporations that refuse to comply with striking unions in a timely manner.

The People's Coalition
The snap election of 2030 sees the collapse of the pre-existing center-right GERB and center-left BSP parties and their replacement by the Progressive Socialists and the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria parties. Both of which wind up in a deadlocked election where each have 65 seats and cannot form a majority coalition with anyone on their own. Eventually "Yes, Bulgaria!" manages to negotiate a ruling majority coalition with the other two parties forming the "People's Coalition", a big tent coalition focused on broad social reforms and anti-corruption policies. Resulting in the extinction of GERB, BSP and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) after much of their parliamentary representation is found guilty of various crimes by the much stronger and more independent judiciary.

In 2034, the People's Coalition comes to an end as the Progressive Socialists win the plurality of seats and form a coalition just with themselves and "Yes, Bulgaria!".

The Progressive Socialist Governmet
It suffered an attempted coup in 2040. By a far-right, neo-reactionary terrorist group.