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Georgi Parvanov |
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Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov
Георги Седефчов Първанов |
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| Assumed office 22 January 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha 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 (Bulgarian: Георги Седефчов Първанов) (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. He retained his position following the elections in 2006.
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 on 16 August 2005.
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Georgi Parvanov was born in the village of Sirishtnik, Pernik Province on June 28, 1957. He grew in the nearby village Kosacha. In 1975 he finished a secondary school in Pernik and in 1981 he finished history at the Sofia University, speciality "History of Bulgarian Communistic Party". In 1988 he defended a doctorate thesis in history with the title "Dimitar Blagoev and the Bulgarian national question 1879-1917".
Dozens of scientific articles, monographs and books, including:
In 2006 Parvanov admitted that before 1989 there was a file on him at the former Communist Security Service (Darzhavna Sigurnost, or DS) under the nickname Gotse (to the revolutionary Gotse Delchev). The file, which, like most files of the Security Service, hasn't been released to the public, does not prove beyond reasonable doubt that he has actually been an agent at the DS, and those who have had access to it disagree as to what it contains. According to Parvanov's own statement, the file only shows that he had been consulted as a historian in conjunction with the writing of a memoir book about events from one hundred years ago and especially the Macedonian Question.1 That was confirmed by two members of parliamentary commissions that had examined the files of the Security Service earlier — Bogomil Bonev and Veselin Angelov.1 Two other members, Metodi Andreev and Evgeni Dimitrov, accused the first two of lying and asserted that the historical research had only been a prelude, followed by Parvanov's consent to work as an agent and write a report about his institute.2
A year later, on 19 July 2007, a special Commission for Opening the Files determined officially that the President Georgi Parvanov was listed as a secret police collaborator of the former Communist Security Service from 1989 till 1993.3 He was recruited a month before Bulgaria's communist regime collapsed. It also became obvious that a large part of his secret file was missing.
In the first round of the elections, incumbent Parvanov came first with 64.047%4 ahead of ultranationalist leader Volen Siderov with 21.486%,4 whom he had to face in a run-off, 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%.5
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 re-elected as President of Bulgaria.6 The turnout was 41.11%.7
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President of Bulgaria 2002 – present |
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| NAME | Parvanov, Georgi Sedefchov |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Георги Седефчов Първанов (Bulgarian) |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | president of Bulgaria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 28 June 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sirishtnik, Bulgaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | living |
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