WI: Bulgarian counter-coup fails, Kimon Georgiev stays in power

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Kimon Georgiev and the Zveno Group somehow get advanced warning of the plot against them and Tsar Boris III's involvement with it and responds by arresting all officers involved. What happens next? Does the Zveno regime dissolve the monarchy and declare a republic, or force Boris to abdicate in favor of a regency? Does Bulgaria maintain its foreign policy course of reconciling with Yugoslavia and France? If so, what impacts does this have on the region? Zveno was strongly anti-IMRO, if the Zveno regime stays in power could that prevent the assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia? Could Yugoslavia end up leaving the Balkan Pact due to its friendlier relations with Bulgaria, potentially leading to the complete dissolution of the Balkan Pact? How will Italy's territorial ambitions on Yugoslavia be affected with the eastern threat to Yugoslavia removed?
 
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Kimon Georgiev and the Zveno Group somehow get advanced warning of the plot against them and Tsar Boris III's involvement with it and responds by arresting all officers involved. What happens next? Does the Zveno regime dissolve the monarchy and declare a republic, or force Boris to abdicate in favor of a regency?
The first seems more likely. Kimon Georgiev and most of his circle were republicans and the Tsar was not especially popular at this point.


Does Bulgaria maintain its foreign policy course of reconciling with Yugoslavia and France? If so, what impacts does this have on the region? Zveno was strongly anti-IMRO, if the Zveno regime stays in power could that prevent the assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia? Could Yugoslavia end up leaving the Balkan Pact due to its friendlier relations with Yugoslavia, potentially leading to the complete dissolution of the Balkan Pact? How will Italy's territorial ambitions on Yugoslavia be affected with the eastern threat to Yugoslavia removed?
The assassination of Alexander I happened before Zveno was removed from the power. In fact it's been suggested that Tsar Boris decided on removing Kimon Georgiev only after the assassination which had weakened Yugoslav influence in Bulgaria.
Also Boris had no more love for IMRO than he had for Zveno (a sentiment he probably shared with the vast majority of the Bulgarian population at this point). He did not permit them to return after Zveno was removed from power and did not allow them any role when Macedonia was rejoined to Bulgaria in 1941.
 
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