 GERB's candidates for the 2011 presidential election, Rosen Plevneliev and Margarita Popova (presidential nominee and running mate, respectively), won the elections on the second ballot with 52.6% of the popular vote.GERB won the 2013 parliamentary elections with 97 seats, receiving 30.5% of the popular vote.This made GERB the first governing party to be re-elected in the history of the post-communist Bulgaria.