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1992 Bulgarian Presidential Election
Direct presidential elections were held for the first time in Bulgaria on 12 January 1992, with a second round on 19 January.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p369 The result was a victory for incumbent President Zhelyu Zhelev of the Union of Democratic Forces, who won 52.8% of the vote in the second round. Voter turnout was 75.4% in the first round and 75.9% in the second.Nohlen & Stöver, p388 Zhelev had originally been elected as President by the Grand National Assembly in 1990. Results References {{Bulgarian elections Bulgaria President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ... Presidential elections in Bulgaria January 1992 events in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhelyu Zhelev
Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev ( bg, Желю Митев Желев; 3 March 1935 – 30 January 2015) was a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who served as the first non-Communist President of Bulgaria from 1990 to 1997. Zhelev was one of the most prominent figures of the 1989 Bulgarian Revolution, which ended the 35 year rule of President Todor Zhivkov. A member of the Union of Democratic Forces, he was elected as President by the 7th Grand National Assembly. Two years later, he won Bulgaria's first direct presidential elections. He lost his party's nomination for his 1996 reelection campaign after losing a tough primary race to Petar Stoyanov. Biography Early life He was born in 1935 into a modest village family in Veselinovo in north-eastern Bulgaria. He studied philosophy at Sofia University, graduating in 1958 and gaining a PhD in 1974, a remarkable achievement given that he was under a cloud as a dissident, having been expelled from the Communist Party in 1965. After hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Business Bloc
The Bulgarian Business Bloc ( bg, Български бизнес блок, Bulgarski biznes blok, BBB) was a political party in Bulgaria. History The party first participated in national elections in 1991, when it received 1.3% of the national vote in the parliamentary elections but failed to win a seat. In the presidential elections the following year, its candidate George Ganchev finished third with 17% of the vote. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p388 In the 1994 parliamentary elections the party increased its vote share to 4.7% and won 13 seats in the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep .... Ganchev was the party's candidate for the 1996 presidential elections, again finishing third with 22% of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Elections In Bulgaria
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 '' Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Elections In Europe
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian National Union – New Democracy
Bulgarian National Union – New Democracy (BNU-ND) ( bg, Български национален съюз - Нова демокрация (БНС-НД)) is an ultranationalist political party based in Sofia, Bulgaria. The party claims to be patriotic and purports to protect Bulgarian values. Its leader is Boyan Rasate. The party opposes the celebration of what it considers non-Bulgarian holidays in the country, including 9 May, "Victory Day". It draws attention by stating protests and by practicing civil disobedience. The '' Sofia Globe'' considers it a right-wing, nationalist fringe party, and commented that it has an "unblemished record of never winning any seats in elections". Objectives of the party The party wants a strong centralized state power and rejects the current multi-party parliamentary democracy, calling it "compromised". It wants to dissolve all political parties and all organizations that it claims undermine the foundations of the Bulgarian state and society. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Communist Party
The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP; bg, Българска Комунистическа Партия (БКП), Balgarska komunisticheska partiya (BKP)) was the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 until 1989, when the country ceased to be a socialist state. The party had dominated the Fatherland Front, a coalition that took power in 1944, late in World War II, after it led a coup against Bulgaria's tsarist regime in conjunction with the Red Army's crossing the border. It controlled its armed forces, the Bulgarian People's Army. The BCP was organized on the basis of democratic centralism, a principle introduced by the Russian Marxist scholar and leader Vladimir Lenin, which entails democratic and open discussion on policy on the condition of unity in upholding the agreed upon policies. The highest body of the BCP was the Party Congress, convened every fifth year. When the Party Congress was not in session, the Central Committee was the hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Donchev
Anton Nikolov Donchev ( bg, Антон Николов Дончев, 14 September 1930 – 20 October 2022) was a Bulgarian writer of historical novels and screenwriter of Bulgarian historical drama films. In 2003 he was elected an academic at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is well known in the country and abroad with his novel '' Time of Parting''. Biography Donchev graduated from Veliko Tarnovo High School in 1948 and graduated "Law" at the Sofia University in 1953. He was denied the prestigious post of Veliko Tarnovo Judge, and started writing as a profession. Political activity Donchev was a co-founder of the "Consolidation" Committee consisting of up to 10 November 1989, and now to Bulgarian Socialist Party and former Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, writers, publishers and sports actors. Personal life and death Donchev's first wife is the Bulgarian chessmaster Evelina Troyanska. On his 79th birthday, Donchev married the 64-year-old Rayna Vasileva, a form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitar Popov
Dimitar Nikolaev Popov ( bg, Димитър Николаев Попов; born 27 February 1970) is a former Bulgarian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career In his career Popov played for Levski Sofia, Botev Plovdiv, Spartak Plovdiv, CSKA Sofia, Maritsa Plovdiv, Lokomotiv Sofia, Spartak Varna and El Paso Patriots. For the Bulgaria national football team, he participated at Euro 1996. Popov had 14 caps for the Bulgaria national football team in the period 1993-1997. In April 2000, he signed with the El Paso Patriots of the USISL United Soccer League (USL), formerly known as United Soccer Leagues, is a soccer league in the United States and Canada. It organizes several men's and women's leagues, both professional and amateur. Men's leagues currently organized are the .... References 1970 births Living people Bulgarian footballers Association football goalkeepers PFC Levski Sofia players Botev Plovdiv players FC Spartak Plovdiv player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blagovest Sendov
Blagovest Hristov Sendov ( bg, Благовест Сендов; 8 February 1932 – 19 January 2020) was a Bulgarian mathematician, diplomat and politician. Early life and education Sendov was born in Asenovgrad, Bulgaria. Career Academic Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia. He had more than 200 publications in fields related to mathematics and computer science. Post-1989 political career Sendov took part as an independent in the 1992 Bulgarian presidential election with Ognyan Saparev as his running mate, finishing in 4th place with 2.24% of the votes. National Assembly of Bulgaria From 1995 to 1997, he was the Chairperson of the National Assembly of Bulgaria; and from 1997 to 2002, he was its Deputy Chairperson. His candidacy for that position was supported by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), the successor to the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). Although ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petar Beron (politician)
Petar Beron (Bulgarian: Петър Берон), born 14 March 1940 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian academic and politician. He was leader of the United Democratic Forces (SDS) in from August 1990 to 4 December 1990 (heading the second-largest political party at the time). He was a vice-presidential candidate in 1992 and a presidential candidate in 2001 and 2006. Biography Petar Beron was born in Sofia on 14 March 1940. He graduated from the Biology-Geology-Geography Department of the Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia. Beron is fluent in Bulgarian, Russian, English and French. Academic career From 1963 up to 1969 he worked as a biologist at the Institute of Zoology with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, becoming a research fellow between 1969 and 1978. He was then promoted to Senior Research Fellow. Political career Union of Democratic Forces Beron was a founding member and secretary of the SDS (a coalition of multiple opposition groups) when it was formed on 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaga Dimitrova
Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova ( bg, Блага Димитрова) (2 January 1922 – 2 May 2003) was a Bulgarian poet and the 2nd Vice President of Bulgaria from 1992 until 1993. Life Dimitrova was born in Byala Slatina, Bulgaria. She graduated high school in Sofia in 1941. During the same year in autumn, she enrolls in the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, where she studies slavic philology until graduation in 1945. She continues her studies in the literary institute ''M. Gorky'' in Moscow, as she defends a dissertation on "Mayakovsky and Bulgarian poetry" in 1951. On her return in Bulgaria, she joined the editorial staff of the monthly magazine of the Bulgarian Writers’ Association. In 1962 she joined the editorial staff of the Association’s publishing house, where she tried to publish the works of young authors who had fallen out of favour with the censors. In 1963, after the tirade against the country’s intellectuals by the Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party, To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ganchev
George Ganchev (born Georgi Petrushev) ( bg, Жорж Ганчев , born ; August 29, 1939 – August 19, 2019) was a Bulgarian politician and founder of the now-defunct political parties Bulgarian Business Bloc and George Ganchev's Bloc. Biography Petroushev was born on August 29, 1939, in Plovdiv. He studied at the Sports Academy in Bulgaria. In the early 1960s he married an Englishwoman and emigrated from Bulgaria. Some sources put the year in which he became an expatriate as 1967. He graduated from the British Academy of Fencing (where he also served as the head coach of the London Fencing Club from 1968 to 1973) and the Hollywood Theatrical Institute. Ganchev was also World Professional Fencing Champion (saber individual champion while representing Great Britain) in 1970 and 1974. Afterwards he committed himself to directing, play-writing, film and play producing in Great Britain and the United States. During the mid-1970s, he taught swordfighting at the American A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
