[1] Around 20 members of the Socialist party from Tarnovo, Gabrovo, Dryanovo, Sliven, Kazanlak, Stara Zagora and other cities took part in the Congress.
With no exceptions but the members from Sevlievo and Kazanlak, they decided to create a party, and that it did not have to be a worker's movement.
The meeting was conducted in secrecy, because Stefan Stambolov's government strongly controlled freedom of association in Bulgaria.
The agenda, which was written like the French and Belgian workers' parties, contained the basis of Marxism.
The members of the BSDP also approved the decentralized structure of the party and the autonomy of the smaller associations within it.