The Constitutional Bloc () was a political alliance in Bulgaria in the early 1920s. It was formed by parties that opposed the ruling Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU) in the early 1920s.Frederick B Chary (2011) The History of Bulgaria, ABC-CLIO, p188
History The alliance was formed on 6 July 1922 by the United People's Progressive Party, the Democratic Party and the Radical Democratic Party,Raymond Detrez (2006) Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria Scarecrow Press, p122Velichko Georgiev People's Alliance 1921–1923 and aligned itself with the People's Alliance.RJ Crampton (2007) Bulgaria, Oxford University Press, p231 It also launched a new newspaper called Slovo (Word).
The alliance won 17 seats in the April 1923 elections,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p385 and also ran a joint list with the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Broad Socialists) that failed to win a seat.Nohlen & Stöver, p379 However, its most prominent leaders were arrested and held prisoner on charges of being responsible for the defeats in the Second Balkan War and World War I. As a result, the party engineered a coup d'état that overthrew the BANU government.Detrez, pxxx In August most of the alliance's leadership joined the new Democratic Alliance, after which it was dissolved.
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