Georgi Pirinski ( bg, Георги Пирински) (born 10 September 1948) is a

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n politician of the

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 198 ...

and after 1990 of the

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=Stoletnitsat ...

(BSP). He was a member of seven National Parliaments ''(1994 – 1997)'' and was the

Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria The Chairman of the National Assembly (Bulgaria), National Assembly of the Bulgaria, Republic of Bulgaria (Председател на Народното събрание на Република България, transliterated as ''Predsedatel n ...

from 2005 to 2009. Member of the European Parliament between 2014 and 2019.

Biography

Born in

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in the emigrant family of Communist functionary Georgi Pirinski Sr., he has roots from

Pirin Macedonia Pirin Macedonia or Bulgarian Macedonia ( bg, Пиринска Македония; Българска Македония) (''Pirinska Makedoniya or Bulgarska Makedoniya'') is the third-biggest part of the geographical region Macedonia located on t ...

. His mother Pauline was born in New York City and was a member of the Young Communist League at the City College of New York. She was a professor of English at Sofia University. His father found refuge in the U.S. after he participated in the unsuccessful Communist uprising against the Bulgarian ruling monarchy in 1923 and was expelled from the U.S. as an undesirable alien in 1951. While a convinced communist, Pirinski did show some flashes of independent thinking, such as expressing disagreement in a private conversation with foreign visitors in 1970 at the decision of Bulgarian media to downplay the U.S. moonwalk the previous year. In the late 1970s, Pirinski was an aide to then Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Lukanov and then at the age of 31 became Bulgaria's youngest deputy minister (of foreign trade). He renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1974, but political opponents later argued that the renunciation was judicially null. Pirinski was considered the BSP's favorite for the 1996 presidential nomination until the Constitutional Court barred him from participating in the presidential elections for failing to satisfy a constitutional requirement that the president be a Bulgarian citizen by birth (he was a U.S. citizen by birth). A vice-premier during the Georgi Atanasov and

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governments and a foreign minister during the

Zhan Videnov Zhan Vasilev Videnov ( bg, Жан Василев Виденов ; born 22 March 1959), sometimes spelled in English as Jean Videnov, was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe ...

government, Pirinski was the

from 11 July 2005 to 25 June 2009.

References

*Ташев, Ташо (1999). Министрите на България 1879-1999. София: АИ "Проф. Марин Дринов" / Изд. на МО. / . (In English: ''Ministers of Bulgaria 1879-1999''; Tasho Tashev, Sofia)

External links

Info on Pirinski on the National assembly website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pirinski, Georgi 1948 births Living people Chairpersons of the National Assembly of Bulgaria Politicians from New York City Bulgarian people of American descent Former United States citizens Macedonian Bulgarians University of National and World Economy alumni Bulgarian Communist Party politicians Members of the National Assembly (Bulgaria) Deputy prime ministers of Bulgaria Foreign ministers of Bulgaria MEPs for Bulgaria 2014–2019 Bulgarian Socialist Party politicians Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics alumni American emigrants to Bulgaria

Biography

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