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Tsetska Tsacheva
Tsetska Tsacheva Dangovska ( bg, Цецка Цачева Данговска; born 24 May 1958) is a Bulgarian politician from GERB and a jurist. She was the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Bulgaria from 4 May 2017 to 5 April 2019. She had previously held the position of Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria on two occasions. Tsetska Tsacheva is the first woman to ever chair the National Assembly of Bulgaria since its establishment in 1878. Background Tsacheva was born in Dragana, Ugarchin Municipality, Lovech Province. She finished the Pleven High School of Mathematics in 1976 and graduated in law from Sofia University. A member of the Pleven Bar Association, she practised as a lawyer and was subsequently a head legal advisor to the Pleven Municipality for seven and a half years until 2007. Tsacheva is married to the architect Rumen Dangovski and has a son, also named Rumen, who is a college student studying Math at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology in ...
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2016 Bulgarian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Bulgaria on 6 November 2016, alongside a referendum on changes to the electoral system and political party funding. The second round was held on 13 November 2016, resulting in the victory of Rumen Radev. Electoral system The President of Bulgaria is elected using the two-round system. For the first time, voters were allowed to vote for none of the above. Candidates The incumbent President, Rosen Plevneliev, announced in May 2016 that he would not be running for re-election. Official candidates Declined Opinion polls First round Second round Results Aftermath Following the results of the second round, Prime Minister and GERB leader Boiko Borisov tendered his resignation. Two days later, on 16 November, the National Assembly voted 218–0 to accept it, resulting in early parliamentary elections. References {{Bulgarian elections Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of ...
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Ministry Of Justice (Bulgaria)
Established by Decree No 1 of July 5, 1879, the Ministry of Justice of Bulgaria () is the link between the executive and judicial branches of power. It directs the writing of new laws related to the judiciary and offers feedback on laws prepared by other government organizations. List of ministers Minister of Justice (1879–1997) Minister for Justice and Legal European Integration (1997–1999) Minister of Justice (1999–present) See also * Justice ministry * Министър на правосъдието на България (Minister of Justice of Bulgaria) * Politics of Bulgaria The politics of Bulgaria take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.Bulgaria Library of Congress Country Study, ''Government ... Sources External links * Ministries of Bulgaria Lists of office-holders Justice ministries Law of Bulgaria {{Bu ...
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Plamen Manushev
Plamen Ivanov Manushev ( bg, Пламен Иванов Манушев) is a Bulgarian politician and retired Vice Admiral of the Bulgarian Navy. Education Plamen Manushev received his secondary education at the Mathematics High School in Tolbuhin in 1972. That same year he joined the National Higher Naval School "N. Vaptsarov "in Varna. In 1977, he graduated from the Naval Academy and joined the ranks of the Bulgarian Army. From 1984 to 1986 he studied at the Naval Academy "A. A. Grechko" in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR, yielding a degree "Master of warfare". In 1997 – 1998 he graduated from the Naval College (Naval War College) in Newport, Rhode Island, United States (with the status of General Staff Academy). In addition to his native Bulgarian, he speaks English and Russian. Military career His military career is as follows: 1977 – 1982 years – navigator and commander of mining torpedo warhead in Varna Naval Base; 1982 – 1984 years – the commander of the base tralchi ...
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Simeon Djankov
Simeon Dyankov ( bg, Симеон Дянков, also Djankov; born July 13, 1970) is a Bulgarian economist. From 2009 to 2013, he was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Bulgaria in the government of Boyko Borisov. Prior to his cabinet appointment, Dyankov was a chief economist of the finance and private sector vice-presidency of the World Bank. He was an associate editor of the '' Journal of Comparative Economics'' from 2004 to 2009. Dyankov was a chairman of the board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. From 2013 to 2015, he was appointed rector of the New Economic School in Moscow. Since November 2015, Dyankov was a research fellow of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics. At the World Bank, Dyankov was director of development economics. He was involved in the publication oWomen Business and the Law World Development Reports and Doing Business reports. The Doing Business reports were discontinued in 2021 after ...
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National Assembly Of Bulgaria
The National Assembly ( bg, Народно събрание, Narodno sabranie) is the unicameral parliament and legislative body of the Republic of Bulgaria. The National Assembly was established in 1879 with the Tarnovo Constitution. Ordinary National Assembly The National Assembly consists of 240 members elected for a four-year term, elected by proportional representation in multi-seat constituencies. Political parties must garner a minimum of 4% of the national vote in order to enter the Assembly. Bulgaria has a multi-party system. The Assembly is responsible for enactment of laws, approval of the budget, scheduling of presidential elections, selection and dismissal of the Prime Minister and other ministers, declaration of war, concluding peace and deployment of troops outside Bulgaria, and ratification of international treaties and agreements. It is headed and presided by the Chairperson of the National Assembly of Bulgaria. The Assembly administers the publication of ...
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Pleven Province
Pleven Province ( bg, Област Плевен or Плевенска Област) is a province located in central northern Bulgaria, bordering the Danube river, Romania and the Bulgarian provinces of Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Lovech. It is divided into 11 subdivisions, called municipalities, that embrace a territory of with a population, as of February 2011, of 269 752 inhabitants.Census 2011
Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
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2009 Bulgarian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 5 July 2009. With 40% of the vote, the decisive winner of the elections was the established in 2006 personalistic party of Boyko Borisov, GERB. The Socialist Party, in power before the election, was in second place, with around 18%. Оnce-ruling National Movement Simeon II did not cross the 4% threshold and won no seats. The turnout was 60.6%, one of the lowest ever. Following the election, GERB leader Boyko Borisov became Prime Minister. Just like all the previous parliamentary elections since the fall of communism, the government was not re-elected. Background The 2009 elections saw the debut of a parallel voting system with a lesser plurality vote element. 209 of the 240 parliament seats were distributed according to the proportional system, while the remaining 31 (the number of voting constituencies in Bulgaria) were allocated for First Past the Post. The ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party wanted to amend the electoral law, inc ...
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Bulgarian Socialist Party
The Bulgarian Socialist Party ( bg, Българска социалистическа партия, translit=Balgarska sotsialisticheska partiya, BSP), also known as The Centenarian ( bg, Столетницата, links=no, translit=Stoletnitsata), is a centre-left, social democratic political party in Bulgaria. The BSP is a member of the Socialist International, Party of European Socialists, and Progressive Alliance. Although founded in 1990 in its modern form, it traces its political heritage back to the founding of the BRDSP in 1891. It is also Bulgaria's largest party by membership numbers. History The Centenarian moniker comes from the fact that the BSP is recognized as the successor of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, which was founded on 2 August 1891 on Buzludzha peak by Dimitar Blagoev, designated in 1903 as the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists), and later as the Bulgarian Communist Party. After the political changes brought by th ...
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Union Of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria)
The Union of Democratic Forces ( bg, Съюз на демократичните сили, translit=Sayuz na demokratichnite sili, СДС / SDS) is a list of political parties in Bulgaria, political party in Bulgaria, founded in 1989 as a union of several political organizations in opposition to the communist government. The Union was transformed into a single unified party with the same name. The SDS is a member of the European People's Party (EPP). In the 1990s the party had the largest membership in the country, with one million members, but has since splintered into a number of small parties totaling no more than 40,000 members. The SDS proper had 12,000 members in 2016. History Dissident groups formed under the faltering regime of Todor Zhivkov in the late 1980s were the basis for the Union. Once Zhivkov fell, a loose political confederation was envisioned where constituent groups could continue to work for their own cause, while the coordinating council would include three ...
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Nayden Zelenogorski
Nayden Zelenogorsky (born September 2, 1961) is a Bulgarian politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ... and former mayor of the municipality of Pleven and a member of parliament. References * 1961 births Living people Bulgarian politicians People from Pleven University of National and World Economy alumni Place of birth missing (living people) {{bulgaria-politician-stub ...
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List Of Mayors Of Pleven
This is a chronological list of mayors of Pleven, the seventh largest city of Bulgaria, since that post was established after the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1877–1878. {{Expand list, date=February 2011 References ''The Mayors of Pleven'' (gallery) Pleven municipal website, accessed 4 April 2006. See also * List of mayors of Sofia * List of mayors of Plovdiv * List of mayors of Varna Pleven Pleven ( bg, Плèвен ) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality. It is the biggest ... * ...
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