Georgi Parvanov
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Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov Георги Седефчов Първанов | |
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| President of Bulgaria | |
| Assumed office 22 January 2002 | |
| Prime Minister | Simeon Sakskoburggotski Sergey Stanishev |
| Vice President | Angel Marin |
| Preceded by | Petar Stoyanov |
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| Born | 28 June 1957 Sirishtnik |
| Political party | BSP |
| Spouse | Zorka Parvanova |
Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov (Template:Lang-bg) (born 28 June 1957) has been president of Bulgaria since 22 January 2002. Parvanov became president after defeating his predecessor, Petar Stoyanov, in the second round of the November 2001 presidential election.
Views
Parvanov declares that is in favour of Bulgarian membership of NATO and the European Union. He identifies as a socialist but left the Bulgarian Socialist Party after he had been elected president, as the president is not allowed to be a political party member.
On election, his programme was to be a 'social' president, with care towards poor, unemployed and disadvantaged people. Parvanov helped in the creation of a three-party government coalition, including the Turkish ethnic party, though the elections were won by the BSP and the party of king Simeon II Saxe-Coburg Gotha. This government was formed on 16 August 2005. The leader of the Turkish party is a former agent of the communistic state security services like Georgi Parvanov.
Education
- Secondary school in Pernik: 1975
- M.A. in History, St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University: 1981
- PhD in History of Bulgarian Communistic Party: 1987
Professional career
- Joined the Institute of History of the Bulgarian Communist Party as researcher: 1981
- Main interest: the Bulgarian national issue and the early history of social democracy in Bulgaria
- Senior Research Associate: 1989
- Member of the Internet Society of Bulgaria since May 2001
Political career
- Member of the Bulgarian Communist Party since 1981 (renamed to Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP in 1990)
- Deputy Chairman of the BSP Supreme Council: 1994
- Chairman of the BSP Supreme Council: 1996
- Re-elected Chairman of the BSP Supreme Council: 2000
- Member of Parliament: 1994–2001
- Chairman of the Parliamentary Group for Friendship with Greece and member of the Parliamentary Committee on Radio and Television: 1994–1997
- Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Democratic Left and the Parliamentary Group of Coalition for Bulgaria: 1997–2001
- Elected President of the Republic of Bulgaria: November 2001. Took office: 22 January 2002.
- Ran for re-election in 2006. Won the first round with 65 per cent of the vote on October 22. As turnout was less than 50%, he faced ultranationalist Volen Siderov at the runoff on October 29. Parvanov won with more than 75 per cent of the vote.
Publications
Dozens of scientific articles, monographs and books, including:
- Dimitar Blagoev and the Bulgarian National Problem 1879–1917, (1988),
- From Bouzloudja to the Corona Theatre. An Attempt at a New Reading of Pages from the BSP's Social Democratic Period, (1995),
- The Bulgarian Social Democracy and the Macedonian Issue at the End of the 19th century up to 1918, (1997)
- Before and after the 10th, (2001).
Collaboration with Committee for State Security
Georgi Parvanov repeatedly lied that he has never belonged to the pro-Soviet communistic state security services. In 2006 he had to admit that he served the former Communist Security Service (Darzhavna Sigurnost, or DS) under the name "agent Gotse". According to Parvanov's own statement, he had been only consulted as a historian in conjunction with the writing of a memoir book about events from one hundred years ago ([1]). On 19 July 2007 it was announced by the Commision on the Communistic State Security Files that Georgi Parvanov served the pro-Soviet communistic state security services. A great amount of pages are missing from his file. The head of the communistic archives, Mr Doychev, was suicided before the submission of the files to the Commission.
2006 Elections
In the first round of the elections, incumbent Parvanov came first with 64.047%[1] ahead of ultranationalist leader Volen Siderov with 21.486%,[1] whom he had to face in a runoff, as Bulgarian law requires a turnout of at least 50% for a president to be elected in the first round. The voter turnout in the first round was 42.51%.[2]
The second round saw a decisive Parvanov victory of around 75.9% as opposed to Siderov's 24.1%, meaning that Parvanov became the first person to be democratically reelected as President of Bulgaria.[3] The turnout was 41.11%.[4]
References and notes
- ^ a b "Elections 2006: Final results for the country according to the Central Electoral Commission for the President and Vice President Elections" (in Bulgarian). Izbori2006.org. Retrieved 2006-10-24.
- ^ "Elections 2006: Voter turnout for the country as of 7 pm" (in Bulgarian). Izbori2006.org.
- ^ Zhelyu Zhelev, although having served two terms, was elected as a president not by popular vote, but by the National Assembly for his first term.
- ^ "41,11 % е окончателната избирателна активност в страната към 19 часа" (in Bulgarian). Focus News. 2006-10-29. Retrieved 2006-10-29.
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