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INTRODUCTION

At the end of XX century socialism world-wide is passing through the storms of renovation. What is going on is a reappraisal of its goals and values and of the ways of achieving them; subject to re-examination are both its failures and the positive historical experience it has accumulated; an answer to the new problems, born in the new realities of contemporary world is being looked for. It is in such turbulent conditions that the socialism of XXI century is coming into the world.

Socialism in Bulgaria is passing through the same storm of renovation.

BSP is undergoing a process of radical change to a new type of a socialist party of the democratic left-wing forces.

This Programme has been worked out in a process of summing up the accumulated practical and theoretical experience of the Bulgarian Socialist Party that engulfed after November 10, 1989, of the essential elements of the ,,Manifesto of Democratic Socialism in Bulgaria", adopted by the XIV Congress and of the ,,Platform for Further Renovation and Restructuring of the Bulgarian Socialist Party into a Modern Party of Democratic Socialism" as well as the most valuable from the foreign experience that corresponds to the Bulgarian conditions.

The Programme is a synthesis of the new visions of BSP on the way the contemporary Bulgarian state and social order are to be democratised, the country is to be taken out of the crisis, and modern economic development on the verge of XXI century is to be achieved. It is a product of the painful lessons drawn from the failure of the societies of authoritarian socialism in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe and of the confidence in the progressive, social and humanitarian potential of the socialist ideas and values. It is an expression of the will of the Bulgarian Socialist Party to work for the renovation and implementation of the socialist ideas on Bulgarian soil, while reshaping itself into a contemporary party of democratic socialism.