Progressive Bulgaria

Progressive Bulgaria is the political bloc led by former president Rumen Radev that won the 19 April 2026 Bulgarian snap election with 44.594% of the vote and 131 seats — the first single-party majority in the Narodno Sabranie since 1997. Radev is Bulgaria's incumbent President; constitutionally he cannot simultaneously serve as prime minister. Progressive Bulgaria's parliamentary majority means it will nominate a prime minister from within its ranks. The Coalition is firmly pro-EU, supports Bulgaria's Schengen accession (December 2024) and Eurozone accession (January 2025), and has given no signal of intent to unwind the digital-nomad permit launched in December 2025.

Note: Progressive Bulgaria and PP-DB (We Continue the Change — Democratic Bulgaria, id 4973) are distinct formations. PP-DB took 12.618% and 37 seats separately. Radev has ruled out coalitions with Boyko Borissov (GERB), Delyan Peevski (MRF) and the PP-DB alliance, meaning Progressive Bulgaria governs with its 131-seat majority alone. The permit is no longer a hostage to Coalition arithmetic involving Vazrazhdane, which crashed to 4.257%.

For the nomads-and-communities topic, Progressive Bulgaria's outright majority is the structural fact that matters: it removes every veto player who might have unwound the nomad permit in exchange for Coalition concessions. The party's pro-EU, anti-corruption positioning makes expansion of the scheme — rather than its removal — the more plausible medium-term scenario.