The most important tier is the flat-rate basic state pension (BSP).
FOUR years ago, Ivan Kostov was Bulgaria's white knight, his mission to revive the economy from the financial collapse inflicted on it by the ex-Communist Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
But opinion polls suggest many voters like her.Second, the collapse of the BJP's coalition with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the government of India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, is a serious blow to its electoral strategy.
The latest poll gives the movement he set up 37.5%, putting it far ahead of the only other group likely to qualify in the general election on June 17th for any seats at all: Mr Kostov's United Democratic Forces (a coalition dominated by his own Union of Democratic Forces) with 18%, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) with 16%, and the mainly ethnic-Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms with 5%.
The woman is Mayawati, UP's chief minister and an icon of India's dalits (Hinduism's former untouchables); the elephant the symbol of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
In the general election on May 12th his centre-right GERB party won 31% of the vote against 27% for the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
In early 1990 the party held an extraordinary congress that enacted significant changes in party structure, and in April 1990 it renamed itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
The ex-Communist Bulgarian Socialist party (BSP), which led the government from May 2013 to August, is languishing, tainted by its previous spells in power.
"While Borisov's party might lose some votes, it is clear that the opposition, especially the Socialists, will not profit from this scandal .Mr Borisov's centre-right GERB party is currently leading the polls with up to 25% ahead of BSP with up to 19%.
At her pleasant bungalow in Lucknow, UP's capital, Miss Mayawati says the BSP is not, in fact, a party for dalits, but "all creeds and castes".
Eventually, the upper-caste-dominated BJP and the Dalit-led BSP, odd but willing bed-fellows under the right circumstances, might form a government.That might not help the BJP much in Delhi, though.
