{"id":1825,"date":"2010-01-01T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/uncategorized\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-march-5\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:50:03","slug":"on-this-day-in-bulgaria-march-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-march-5\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Bulgaria: March 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 5 touches two formative institutions in Bulgaria&#8217;s history \u2014 the parliamentary habits of a newly liberated state and the press organ of a movement that would later reshape the country entirely.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>March 5, 1879 \u2014 First Secret Ballot in the Bulgarian Parliament<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On March 5, 1879, the first vote by secret ballot was held in the Bulgarian Parliament. The event took place during the early formative period of Bulgaria&#8217;s restored political life, when representatives were building institutions from the ground up. Secret voting mattered because it offered protection for individual choice against direct pressure or intimidation in a political culture still finding its footing.<\/p>\n<p>In a young system, procedure was as consequential as ideology: rules for voting, debate, and accountability shaped what public decision-making would become. This early use of the secret ballot shows that the new Bulgarian state was not only choosing leaders \u2014 it was also learning the working habits of parliamentary democracy.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>March 5, 1927 \u2014 Rabotnichesko Delo Is Launched<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On March 5, 1927, Rabotnichesko Delo was founded as the newspaper of the legal Bulgarian Workers&#8217; Party. The publication later became one of the most influential papers in the country \u2014 especially after the communist takeover in 1944, when it served as the primary press organ of the ruling party. Its trajectory mirrors the wider story of how a marginal political current became the dominant force in Bulgarian public life.<\/p>\n<p>In the interwar years, left-wing movements operated under legal restrictions and surveillance; after 1944, the same current controlled the state. The paper was renamed Duma in 1990 during the transition to political pluralism. March 5 marks the beginning of a media institution whose history is inseparable from Bulgaria&#8217;s political transformations across the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>More March milestones from Bulgaria&#8217;s history: <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-march-4\/\">March 4<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-march-6\/\">March 6<\/a>. Find out more about the country through our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/category\/from-above\/\">Bulgaria From Above<\/a><\/strong> series and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/category\/bulgaria\/\">travel guides<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgaria&#8217;s Parliament held its first secret ballot in 1879, and Rabotnichesko Delo was launched in 1927.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-this-day-in-bulgaria","latest_post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>On This Day in Bulgaria: March 5 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